Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland
August 2-6, 1998

General Information:

Sunday, August 2, 1998

• Morning Session
  • Workshop 1. Plant activities for pre-college classrooms.
  • BSA Council Meeting & Luncheon
• Afternoon Session
  • Workshop 2. Using ISSR markers in studies of natural populations.
  • BSA Council Meeting

Monday, August 3, 1998

• Morning Session
  • SESSION 1 Contributed Papers: Microscopic structure. Developmental and Structural section.
  • SESSION 2 Posters. Developmental and Structural section.
  • SESSION 3 Contributed Papers: Pollination, breeding systems, and seed ecology. Ecological section.
  • SESSION 4 Contributed Papers: Populations and conservation genetics, molecular evolution and genetics, and cytogenetics. Genetics section.
  • SESSION 5 Contributed Papers: Isabel Cookson student award session. Paleobotanical section.
  • SESSION 6 Contributed Papers & Business Meeting/Luncheon: Plant physiology. Physiological section.
  • SESSION 7 Posters: Plant physiology. Physiological section.
  • SESSION 8 Posters. Phytochemical and Historical sections.
  • SESSION 9 Contributed Papers. Pteridological section; joint session with American Fern Society.
  • SESSION 10 Contributed Papers: Biogeography. Systematics section; joint session with American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
  • SESSION 11 Contributed Papers: Monocotyledons. Systematics section; joint session with American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
• Afternoon Session
  • American Journal of Botany Editorial Board Luncheon meeting
  • SESSION 12 Contributed Papers: Leaves: Structure and development. Developmental and Structural section.
  • SESSION 13 Symposium: Consequences of plant responses to spatial and temporal heterogeneity. Ecological section; joint session with the Ecological Society of America.
  • SESSION 14 Posters & Business Meeting. Genetics section.
  • SESSION 15 Contributed Papers. Paleobotanical section.
  • SESSION 16 Contributed Papers & Business Meeting: Phytochemistry. Phytochemical section.
  • Pteridological Section Business Meeting
  • SESSION 17 Contributed Papers: Molecular. Systematics section; joint session with the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
  • SESSION 18 Contributed Papers: Morphology, anatomy. Business Meeting, Systematics section; joint session with the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
• Evening Session
  • SESSION 19 Special Lecture: The genetic consequences of polyploidy: Keys to the success of polyploids in nature? Genetics section.
  • Structural and Developmental Business Meeting.
  • Paleobotany Mixer
  • Paleobotany Dinner and Auction

Tuesday, August 4, 1998

• Morning Session
  • SESSION 20 Contributed Papers: Floral structure and development. Developmental and Structural section.
  • SESSION 21 Posters: Plant Ecology. Ecological and Tropical Biology sections.
  • SESSION 22 Contributed Papers: Conservation biology: Rare plants and invasive species. Ecological section.
  • SESSION 23 Symposium: Economic Botany and ethnobotany: Subjects that generate interest in plants. Economic Botany and Teaching sections.
  • SESSION 24 Symposium: Population genetics and gene flow in tropical plants. Genetics and Tropical Biology sections; joint session with the Association for Tropical Biology.
  • SESSION 25 Posters. Paleobotanical section.
  • SESSION 26 Contributed Papers. Paleobotanical section.
  • SESSION 27 Symposium: Conservation biology of pteridophytes. Part I. Pteridological section; joint session with American Fern Society.
  • SESSION 28 Posters. Systematics section; joint session with the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
  • SESSION 29 Contributed Papers: Asteraceae. Systematics section; joint session with the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
  • SESSION 30 Contributed Papers: Molecular. Systematics section; joint session with the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
• Afternoon Session
  • Ecological Section Business Meeting and Lunch
  • SESSION 31 Contributed Papers: Fruits, seeds and other reproductive structures. Developmental and Structural section.
  • SESSION 32 Special Lecture: Symmetry in flowers - Diversity and evolution. Developmental and Structural section.
  • SESSION 33 Contributed Papers: Tropical ecology. Ecological and Tropical Biology sections.
  • SESSION 34 Special Lecture & Business Meeting: Flower power: Research, development, and economics. Economic Botany section.
  • SESSION 35 Contributed Papers. Economic Botany and Historical sections.
  • SESSION 36 Contributed Papers, Informal Presentations & Business Meeting. Paleobotanical section.
  • SESSION 37 Symposium: American beachgrass (Ammophila breviligulata). Physiological section.
  • SESSION 38 Symposium: Conservation biology of pteridophytes. Part II. Pteridological section; joint session with American Fern Society.
  • SESSION 39 Symposium: The relation of phylogeny and species distribution to spatial environmental parameters. Systematics section.
  • SESSION 40 Contributed Papers: Biogeography, Islands. Systematics section; joint session with the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
  • SESSION 41 Contributed Papers: Molecular. Systematics section; joint session with the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
• Botanical Society of America Business Meeting

Wednesday, August 5, 1998

• Morning Session
  • SESSION 42 Past-President’s Symposium: G. Ledyard Stebbins and plant evolutionary biology in the next millennium.
  • SESSION 43 Contributed Papers: Roots and shoots. Developmental and Structural section.
  • SESSION 44 Contributed Papers: Physiological ecology. Ecological section.
  • SESSION 45 Contributed Papers: Floras and Gymnosperms. Systematics section; joint session with the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
  • SESSION 46 Colloquium: Systematics of the North American Senecioneae. Systematics section; joint session with the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
  • SESSION 47 Contributed Papers & Business Meeting. Teaching section.
  • SESSION 48 Posters. Teaching section.
• Afternoon Session
  • SESSION 49 Symposium: Heterochrony in plants. Developmental and Structural section.
  • SESSION 50 Contributed Papers: Community ecology, competition, and plant-animal interactions. Ecological section.
  • SESSION 51 Symposium: Plants on demand: Research using living collections in botanical gardens and arboreta. Systematics section.
  • SESSION 52 Contributed Papers: Fabaceae, Breeding systems, and genetic diversity. Systematics section; joint sessions with the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
  • SESSION 53 Contributed Papers: Molecular. Systematics section; joint sessions with the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.

Thursday, August 6, 1998

• BSA Executive Council Meeting and Breakfast

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