A comprehensive introduction to vascular plant phylogeny, the Third Edition of Plant Systematics reflects changes in the circumscription of many orders and families to represent monophyletic groups, following the most recent classification of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The taxonomic evidence described includes data from morphology, anatomy, embryology, chromosomes, palynology, secondary plant compounds, proteins, and DNA. Molecular taxonomic methods are fully presented, as are the results of many recent studies, both molecular and morphological. A chapter on the history of plant classification puts current systematic methods into historical context. Issues relating to variation in plant populations and species, including speciation and species concepts, polyploidy, hybridization, breeding systems, and introgression are carefully considered. Appendices cover botanical nomenclature as well as field and herbarium methodology. The text is copiously illustrated, using in large part the informative analytical drawings developed as part of the Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States project.
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" ... There is much to laud in this work." --Mark Fishbein, The Quarterly Review of Biology
I loved this textbook as it holds everything one needs to know about plants: families, floral formulas, distribution and ecology, genera and species, economic plants and products, references of articles and books, figures, phylogenetic trees and morphological character states, and a large discussion on DNA and problematic phylogenetic positions of groups. In addition, keys are provided along with pictures, tables of diagnostic features of some subfamilies, a nice glossary, and a DVD. ... I recommend this textbook for any classes that are botany-related, for any research projects that are botany-related, and any naturalist groups that are botany-related. Plants are wonderful: let people know more about them. --Virginie H. Raquet, Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas
I loved this textbook as it holds everything one needs to know about plants: families, floral formulas, distribution and ecology, genera and species, economic plants and products, references of articles and books, figures, phylogenetic trees and morphological character states, and a large discussion on DNA and problematic phylogenetic positions of groups. In addition, keys are provided along with pictures, tables of diagnostic features of some subfamilies, a nice glossary, and a DVD. ... I recommend this textbook for any classes that are botany-related, for any research projects that are botany-related, and any naturalist groups that are botany-related. Plants are wonderful: let people know more about them. --Virginie H. Raquet, Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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WALTER S. JUDD, University of Florida, USA. CHRISTOPHER S. CAMPBELL, University of Maine, USA. ELIZABETH A. KELLOGG, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. PETER F. STEVENS, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Missouri Botanical Garden, USA. MICHAEL J. DONOGHUE, Yale University, USA.
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The second edition (2002) has been much expanded (from 464 to 576 pages) and has been adjusted to keep up with the (headlong) developments in this field. It also includes more descriptions of families.In some ways the book has not changed. The same illustrations were used giving it the same look. It remain an introductory book, that although set up along the lines of a systembook is only of limited use as such, since coverage is far from complete. The Appendix on "Botanical nomenclature" is still a soft spot. Not only is the (badly) erroneous bit on the naming of cultivated plants still there, but the slanted view of the ICBN has worsened (the ICBN even being called "Linnaean"!) and the PhyloCode is plugged. However this remains the foremost textbook for those wanting a start in plant taxonomy, a field that is changing ever more rapidly. The third edition (2007) is expanded yet again (to 612p). The most noticeable changes are the introduction of color, and a different, thinner kind of paper for the pages. Although it has more pages, the third edition is slimmer than the second. The printing quality of the (newly introduced) color photographs is quite decent, probably better than in the book by Simpson, although that has more photographs. In addition color is used to support the text and the occasional diagram, making this a brighter-looking book than the second edition. The system followed is based on APG II (2003), while the second edition was close to APG I (1998) and included such families as Cecropiaceae and Celtidaceae, which now are out. A change from APG II is in the clade names such as fabids (instead of eurosids I) and campanulids (instead of euasterids I) which certainly is more user friendly. Nevertheless, there is a strong continuity with the second edition, using the same line drawings as the main illustrations and with much of the text essentially the same.
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The listing on Amazon specified "with CDROM" which implied that it was the 3rd edition. Instead a 2nd edition was delivered which included no CDROM. Moreover, all illustrations are black and white line drawings with a few B&W photos of people. The CD would have made all the difference.
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That, s so good and useful for getting basic information on Plant Systematics and to some extent Botany. When I bought it, two chapters was studied first and was updated compeletly with scientific papers and so on than second edition. I suppose this book to students.
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- On the Origin of Species; The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870 (Volume V) by Charles Darwin on page 122, and Index
- The Origin of Species (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 122
- International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Regnum Vegetabile, Vol 118) by W. Greuter in Back Matter
- Flora of Barro Colorado Island by Thomas Croat in Back Matter
- Taxonomy and Plant Conservation by Etelka Leadlay on page 50, and page 59
- Cycad Classification: by Terrence Walters on page 11
- Understanding the Pattern of Life: Orgins and Organization of the Species by Todd Charles Wood in Back Matter
- Flavonoids of the Sunflower Family (Asteraceae) by Bruce A. Bohm in Back Matter
- Phylogeny & Evolution of Angiosperms by et al Pamela S. Soltis in Back Matter
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