Pieter B. Pelser

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Professor Pelser and a leaf of Senecio fistulosus
Pieter Pelser is a Lecturer in Plant Systematics and the director of the herbarium at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. One research interest is the evolutionary history of the tribe Senecioneae, one of the largest tribes in the largest family of flowering plants.[1] He wrote the most recent attempt to define and delimit this tribe and its problematic founding species Senecio.[2]

He also studies insects that eat these plants (Longitarsus) which contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids and what makes them choose which plants they eat.[3]

Another research interest is the Philippine members of the genus Rafflesia, which has the biggest flowers of any plant, and in particular the conservation of them.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Pieter Pelser. "Pieter Pelser Plant systematist". Retrieved 2009-12-22. 
  2. Pelser, Pieter B; Nordenstam, Bertil; Kadereit, Joachim W.; Watson, Linda E. (November 2007). "An ITS phylogeny of tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae) and a new delimitation of Senecio L.". Taxon (International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT)) 56 (4): 1077–14E(–1062). doi:10.2307/25065905. Retrieved 2008-06-29. 
  3. Schaffner, Urs; Heather Kirk, Peter Pelser, and Klaas Vrieling (2004-11-16). "What determines resistance to specialist herbivores? A case study with the plant genus Senecio and Longitarsus flea beetles". Retrieved 2008-06-29. 
  4. "Author Query for 'Pelser'". International Plant Names Index. 

External links

  • International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Author Details". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2008-07-01. 
  • Pieter Pelser. "Senecioneae photo gallery". Pieter's Public Gallery. Retrieved 2008-06-29. 
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