Modern Plant Taxonomy

Modern Greek Corpus Taxonomy

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Principles Op Plant Taxonomy

“Modern Linnaeus”: A class exercise on plant nomenclature and taxonomy in comparison with a previous experiment

Ethno-classification is a science dealing with a search for order, or a pattern, in the ways in which people name and categorize plants and animals. An experiment was conducted in the Botany class during the 2008-2009 academic year at the University of Roma Tre to collect data on the naming and classifying process of students not aware of the Linnaean system of classification. Forty plant speci...

Principles of Plant Taxonomy , VI

Plant Evolution: Modern Sex Chromosomes

The first detailed map has been produced of a plant chromosome carrying sex-determining genes. The new data show that, in papaya, these genes lie in a quite extensive non-recombining region. This region is nevertheless a small part of the papaya genome compared with other male-specific genome regions, such as mammalian Y chromosomes.