1 Department of Plant Systematics and Geography, Warsaw University, Al. Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland, (Fulbright scholar at Wichita State University) 2 Computer Science Services Group, LLC, 9415 E. Harry, Suite 302, Wichita KS 67207 (also: Department of Computer. Science, Wichita State University) s Department of Computer Science, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260-0083 (also: ...

This review will address cross-reactivity of pollen, fungal, and animal aeroallergens. In the 15 years or so that have transpired since similar reviews on pollen cross-reactivity were published, significant additional information both on cross-allergenicity and on plant systematics has become available (1,2). This review will attempt to incorporate those advances. Cross-reactivity among foods w...

*Laboratory of Plant Systematics, Institute of Botany and Microbiology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, P.O. Box 2437, BE-3001 Leuven, Belgium; yCenter for Transgene Technology and Gene Therapy, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB-3), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Herestraat 49, BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium; zDepartment of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wi...

The Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) (www.plantontology.org) is a collaborative effort among several plant databases and experts in plant systematics, botany and genomics. A primary goal of the POC is to develop simple yet robust and extensible controlled vocabularies that accurately reflect the biology of plant structures and developmental stages. These provide a network of vocabularies linked ...

Scientific names are crucial in communicating knowledge about fungi. In plant pathology, they link information regarding the biology, host range, distribution, and potential risk. Our understanding of fungal biodiversity and fungal systematics has undergone an exponential leap, incorporating genomics, web-based systems, and DNA data for rapid identification to link species to metadata. The impa...

Although the matK gene has been used in addressing systematic questions in four families, its potential application to plant systematics above the family level has not been investigated. This paper examines the rates, patterns, and types of nucleotide substitutions in the gene and addresses its utility in constructing phylogenies above the family level. Eleven complete sequences from the GenBan...

Although the c. 10,000 species in the Poaceae places it as the fifth largest flowering plant family, a number of biological features raise it to a unique position. The family has contributed crop species that provide about 80% of the annual global food (FAOSTAT 1999). In fact, four of the top crops that feed the world are cereal crops: wheat, rice, corn, and barley. This economic significance i...

Herbaria are collections of preserved plants specimens, some of which date back to the 16th century. They are essential to botanical research, especially in systematics. They can also be important historical documents. The collections of Lewis and Clark, Carolus Linnaeus, and Charles Darwin, to name a few, are primary sources for the study of these individuals’ work. Now many of these herbarium...