BIOL 421 AGROSTOLOGY

Reading List

  1. Bernhardt, Peter. 1989. Prairie Days, in Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist; Vintage Books, Random House

  2. Crepet, William L. And Gwen D. Feldman. 1991. The Earliest Remains of Grasses in the Fossil Record; Amer. J. Bot. 78(7): 1010-1014.

  3. Stebbins, G.L. 1981. Coevolution of grasses and herbivores. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 68:75-86.

  4. Doyle, Jeff J., J.I. Davis, R.J. Soreng, D. Garvin and M.J. Anderson. 1992. Chloroplast DNA inversions and the origin of the grass family (Poaceae); Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. Vol 89, pp.7722-7726, Aug.

  5. Cronquist, A. 1981. An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants; ColumbiaUniv. Press; pp. 1142-1147 (Family Poaceae).

  6. Clayton, W.D. and S. A. Renvoize. 1986. Genera graminum: grasses of the world; Kew Bulletin additional series, 13; London; pp. 19-24. (Evolution in grasses)

  7. Gould, F.W. and R.B. Shaw. 1983. Grass Systematics, 2nd Ed.; Texas A. & M. Univ. Press, College Station; pp. 76-90. (Reproduction and Cytogenetics)

  8. Ellis, R.P. 1986. A review of comparative leaf blade anatomy in the systematics of the Poaceae; the past twenty-five years; In Grass Systematics and Evolution, T.R. Soderstrom (Ed.), Smithsonian Institution Press; pp. 3-10.

  9. Barkworth, Mary E. and Douglas R. Dewey. 1985. Genomically based genera in the perennial Triticeae of North America: identification and membership; Amer. J. Bot. 72(5): 767-776.

  10. Pohl, Richard W. 1986. Man and Grasses: A History; In Grass Systematics and Evolution, T.R. Soderstrom (Ed.), Smithsonian Institution Press.

  11. Stebbins, G. Ledyard. 1986. Grass Systematics and Evolution: Past, Present and Future; In Grass Systematics and Evolution, T.R. Soderstrom (Ed.), Smithsonian Institution Press.

  12. Ball, Donald M., J.F. Pedersen and G. D. Lacefield. 1993. The Tall-Fescue Endophyte; Amer. Scientist Vol. 81: 370-379.

  13. Iltis, Hugh H. 1986. Maize Evolution and Agricultural Origins; In Grass Systematics and Evolution, T.R. Soderstrom (Ed.), Smithsonian Institution Press.

    Chapman, G.P. (Ed.) 1992. Grass Evolution and Domestication; Cambridge Univ. Press (QK 495 .G74 G734 1992)

    Soderstrom, Thomas R., Khidir W. Hilu, Christopher S. Campbell, Mary E. Barkworth (Eds.). 1987. Grass Systematics and Evolution; Smithsonian Institution Press; Washington, D.C. (QK 495 .G74 G735)

    Redlin, Scott C. and Lori M. Carris. 1996. Endophytic Fungi in Grasses and Woody Plants: Systematics, Ecology, and Evolution; APS Press, The American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, Minnesota; (QK 604.2 .E53 1996)


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