American Journal of Botany - 98 (4), 2011

Contents:

Mark C. Brundrett
Commentary on the de Vega et al. (2010) paper on hyphae in the parasitic plant Cytinus: Mycorrhizal fungi growing within plants are not always mycorrhizal1

Clara de Vega, Montserrat Arista, Pedro L. Ortiz, and Salvador Talavera
Mycorrhizal fungi and parasitic plants: Reply

Alexey Shipunov and Ekaterina Shipunova
Haptanthus story: Rediscovery of enigmatic flowering plant from Honduras

Marcelo R. Pace, Lúcia G. Lohmann, and Veronica Angyalossy
Evolution of disparity between the regular and variant phloem in Bignonieae (Bignoniaceae)

Andrew J. Bowling and Kevin C. Vaughn
Leaf abscission in Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) is due to loss of highly de-esterified homogalacturonans in the middle lamellae

François P. Teste, Victor J. Lieffers, and Simon M. Landhäusser
Viability of forest floor and canopy seed banks in Pinus contorta var. latifolia (Pinaceae) forests after a mountain pine beetle outbreak

Sonia Garcia, E. Durant McArthur, Jaume Pellicer, Stewart C. Sanderson, Joan Valles, and Teresa Garnatje
A molecular phylogenetic approach to western North America endemic Artemisia and allies (Asteraceae): Untangling the sagebrushes

Natalie Cusimano, Josef Bogner, Simon J. Mayo, Peter C. Boyce, Sin Y. Wong, Michael Hesse, Wilbert L. A. Hetterscheid, Richard C. Keating, and Jim C. French
Relationships within the Araceae: Comparison of morphological patterns with molecular phylogenies

Thomas L. Parchman, Craig W. Benkman, Brittany Jenkins, and C. Alex Buerkle
Low levels of population genetic structure in Pinus contorta (Pinaceae) across a geographic mosaic of co-evolution

Alan Channing, Alba Zamuner, Dianne Edwards, and Diego Guido
Equisetum thermale sp. nov. (Equisetales) from the Jurassic San Agustín hot spring deposit, Patagonia: Anatomy, paleoecology, and inferred paleoecophysiology

Jose M. Contreras Sánchez, David F. Greene, and Mauricio Quesada
A field test of inverse modeling of seed dispersal

Douglas E. Soltis, Stephen A. Smith, Nico Cellinese, Kenneth J. Wurdack, David C. Tank, Samuel F. Brockington, Nancy F. Refulio-Rodriguez, Jay B. Walker, Michael J. Moore, Barbara S. Carlsward, Charles D. Bell, Maribeth Latvis, Sunny Crawley, Chelsea Black, Diaga Diouf, Zhenxiang Xi, Catherine A. Rushworth, Matthew A. Gitzendanner, Kenneth J. Sytsma, Yin-Long Qiu, Khidir W. Hilu, Charles C. Davis, Michael J. Sanderson, Reed S. Beaman, Richard G. Olmstead, Walter S. Judd, Michael J. Donoghue, and Pamela S. Soltis
Angiosperm phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa

Bruce G. Baldwin, Susan Kalisz, and W. Scott Armbruster
Phylogenetic perspectives on diversification, biogeography, and floral evolution of Collinsia and Tonella (Plantaginaceae)

Alan T. Whittemore and Richard T. Olsen
Ulmus americana (Ulmaceae) is a polyploid complex

Jie Liu, Lian-Ming Gao, De-Zhu Li, De-Quan Zhang, and Michael Möller
Cross-species amplification and development of new microsatellite loci for Taxus wallichiana (Taxaceae)

Laure Benoit, Céline Born, Hélene Vignes, Marie-Hélene Chevallier, Gilbert Todou, Chantal Debain, and Hélene I. Joly
Polymorphic microsatellite loci from Dacryodes edulis (Burseraceae), a Central African rainforest and fruit–tree species

Jia-Lin Huang, Chun-Xia Zeng, Hong-Tao Li, and Jun-Bo Yang
Isolation and characterization of 15 microsatellite markers from the spring orchid (Cymbidium goeringii) (Orchidaceae)

Jianhua Ouyang, Guili Yang, Renchao Zhou, Sufang Chen, Miaomiao Guo, Wei Wu, Yelin Huang, and Suhua Shi
Development and characterization of 18 EST–SSR markers in Sonneratia caseolaris

Michelle Waycott, Brendan L. Jones, Jent Kornelis Van Dijk, Heather L. A. Robson, and Ainsley Calladine
Microsatellite markers in the Australian desert plant, Solanum centrale (Solanaceae)

Li-Ping Ju, Chia-Chi Kuo, Yi-Shan Chao, Yu-Pin Cheng, Xun Gong, and Yu-Chung Chiang
Microsatellite primers in the native perennial cycad Cycas taitungensis (Cycadaceae)

Miklos Maximiliano Bajay, Maria Imaculada Zucchi, Tammy Aparecida Manabe KIIhl, Carlos Eduardo Araújo Batista, Mariza Monteiro, and José Baldin Pinheiro
Development of a novel set of microsatellite markers for Castor bean, Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae)1

Aluana G. Abreu, Maria T. Grombone-Guaratini, Mariza Monteiro, José B. Pinheiro, Antonio F.C. Tombolato, and Maria I. Zucchi
Development of microsatellite markers for Aulonemia aristulata (Poaceae) and cross-amplification in other bamboo species

Xiaobo Xie, Yingying Qiu, Liping Ke, Xiliang Zheng, Guanting Wu, Jinqing Chen, Xingjiang Qi, and Sangnag Ahn
Microsatellite primers in red bayberry, Myrica rubra (Myricaceae)

Kundapura Venkataramana Ravishankar, Bellam Hanumantha-Reddy Mani, Lalitha Anand, and Makki Ramachandra Dinesh
Development of new microsatellite markers from Mango (Mangifera indica) and cross-species amplification




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