Wikipedia:WikiProject Plant Evo Devo

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The main page for this project is Plant evo devo

[edit] Goals

• Should provide comprehensive information on evolution of plant form. Comparative studies form core.
• Should span all levels of plant development and interactions - ecological, physiological and molecular.
• Should NOT be redundant with topics on Plant Development. The focus is on comparative analyses. If necessary, such entries be separately created or updated.

[edit] Participants

1. Gauravm1312 02:43, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
2. EncycloPetey 22:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
3. Rkitko ^(talk) 20:51, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rough outline of areas

1) Early thinking on plant evolution and evolution of plant form

• Plant morphology should have information about historical thinking on the evolution of plant architecture as well as modern findings of meristem influence on leaf gap formation.
• Stele (biology) - former thought on transformational morphology.
• Morphometrics & Allometry
• Evolutionary history of plants.

2) Use of model and non-model systems

• Information about genes and gene networks involved in plant development

(Information is currently scattered. For eg: see MADS-box, KNOX (genes))

• Different genome projects, EST data available.

(Plant EST databases and their information has been under-represented in discussions. See Expressed sequence tag)

• Model organisms - e.g. Arabidopsis thaliana, Maize

3) Information from comparative studies on various organ architectures

• Comparison between different plant phyla, esp pteridophytes, gymnosperms, angiosperms.
• Leaf shape, venation
• Meristem architectures across phylogeny, molecular aspects
• Roots, any comparative studies on root architectures, root-symbiont interactions etc.
• Flower architecture. The Floral Genome Project is churning out data, and that has been incompletely represented here.
• Chloroplasts evolution. Currently present as an incomplete entries in Photosynthesis, Endosymbiont and Oxygen evolution. Quite a lot of interesting data is missing.
• Evolution of gene families involved with development - MADS-box, KNOX etc.
• Genetic and developmental models - The ABC Model of Flower Development
• Comparative analyses of the physiological properties of plants

For eg: Secondary metabolite production is less descriptive. Plus there's comparative information on evolution of these features available.

• MicroRNAs in development

4) Ecological evo-devo studies

• Plant-Pollinator interactions
• Polyploidy

Although entries for these exist, a developmental perspective is either missing or has not been an area of focus.

Anything else I may be missing out.

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