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Ontogenetic Systematics, Molecular Developmental Genetics, and the Angiosperm Petal

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Molecular Systematics of Plants II

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Phylogenetic systematics discovers pattern; ontogenetic systematics uncovers processes behind pattern. Plant diversity, as recognized in the field, herbarium, or library, stems from the diversity of plant form. How an organism develops determines its phenotype, and therefore differences among ontogenies are what generate diversity. The molecular basis for these differences is of fundamental importance to plant systematics, yet the topic remains poorly understood.

Anyone who pays a little attention to the growth of plants will readily observe that certain of their external members are sometimes transformed, so that they assume—either wholly or in some lesser degree—the form of the members nearest in the series … If we note that it is in this way possible for the plant to take a step backwards and thus to reverse the order of growth, we shall obtain so much the more insight into Nature’s regular procedure; and we shall make the acquaintance of the laws of transmutation, according to which she produces one part from another, and sets before us the most varied forms through modification of a single organ. (J. W. von Goethe, 1790; translation by Arber, 1946, p. 90)

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Albert, V.A., Gustafsson, M.H.G., Di Laurenzio, L. (1998). Ontogenetic Systematics, Molecular Developmental Genetics, and the Angiosperm Petal. In: Soltis, D.E., Soltis, P.S., Doyle, J.J. (eds) Molecular Systematics of Plants II. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5419-6_12

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