News from the Society, the Sections and the Committees
News from the Society, the Sections and the Committees
For over a century, the Gnetales
have been viewed as an enigmatic group of seed plants. During
the past ten years, significant advances have been made in the
understanding of the fossil history, vegetative anatomy, reproductive
morphology, pollination biology, fertilization biology, and ecophysiology
of the Gnetales. As a consequence of the recognition that Gnetales
are the most closely related extant organisms to angiosperms,
an understanding of their biology and evolutionary history is
directly relevant to issues associated with the evolution of seed
plants and the origin of flowering plants, two topics of considerable
interest to plant biologists.
During the twentieth century,
only two broadly-based works have been published on the Gnetales:
"Gnetales" by H. H. W. Pearson (1929) and "Les
Gnétophytes" by Pieffe Martens (1971). "Biology
and Evolution of the Gnetales" is being published as a supplementary
issue of the International Journal of Plant Sciences. The original
presentations by the authors took place at a Botanical Society
of America symposium in 1995, that was cosponsored by the Paleobotanical
and Structural and Developmental Sections and organized by W.E.
Friedman. This volume will serve as an excellent reference work
for graduate students, postdoctorals and faculty whose interests
are focused on plant diversity and evolution.
Order information: Individual copies of "Biology and Evolution of the Gnetales", supplement to International Journal of Plant Sciences, volume 157:6, November 1996 are available from the University of Chicago Press, Journals Division, P.O. Box 37005, Chicago, IL 60637. Individuals, $11.00; Institutions, $33.65. Outside USA, please add $7.50 for postage; Canadian Residents, please add postage and 7% GST.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to:
Kim Hiser, Business Manager
Phone/Fax: 614/292-3519 email: hiser3 @ osu . edu The Mid-Continent section of BSA will have its annual meeting with the SWARM (Southwestern and Rocky Mountain) division of AAAS from 18-22 May at Texas A & M University in College Station. The BSA Mid-Continent section includes the states of. NM, CO, WY, TX, OK,AR,KS,MO,NE, IA, SD, ND, and MN. Botanists in the region are strongly encouraged to attend the meetings and to contribute papers or posters. AAAS and the mid-continent section are sponsoring a fullday symposium organized by Hugh Wilson (Texas A & M) entitled: Biodiversity and the World Wide Web: Problems and Prospects. The section also presents awards for outstanding student papers and organizes fieldtrips at the meeting. Although deadline for submission of abstracts was 15 February, information on programs, registration, scheduling, and room reservations can be obtained from: Dr. Donald Nash, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 (phone: 970/491-5481, e-mail:
dnash @ lamar . colostate . edu).
Contents: W.E. Friedman, Introduction
to biology and evolution of the Gnetales; J.A. Doyle, Seed plant
phylogeny and the relationships of Gnetales; R.A. Price, Systematics
and biogeography of Gnetates; P.R. Crane, The fossil history of
the Gnetales; S. Carlquist, Wood, bark and stem anatomy of Gnetales: a summary; W.E. Friedman and J.S. Carmichael, Double fertilization in Gnetales: implications for understanding reproductive evolution among seed plants; L. Hufford, The morphology and evolution of male reproductive structures in Gnetales; P.K. Endress, Structure and function of female and bisexual organ complexes in Gnetales. 125 pages, I color plate, 21 halftone plates.
PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN
ISSN 0032-0919
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PLANNING YOUR ESTATE?
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The Developmental and Structural Section of the Botanical Society of America is now connected through email. All current members of the section (with email addresses) will be able to receive infrequent, but important information about our discipline, job opportunities, and upcoming meetings. In order to prevent this new mode of communication from becoming junk mail, notices will be sent out from the chair of the section no more frequently that once a week, and in all likelihood, about once a month. Almost 300 members have replied to the first attempts to connect the members of our section. The goal is twofold: to maintain communications among our membership beyond the confines of our annual meeting, and to facilitate the transmission of information about professional opportunities to our younger members.
If you have a faculty job notice or a postdoctoral opportunity that you wish to be publicized, please send the information to William (Ned) Friedman at ned @ colorado . edu. Also, if you (or anyone you know) are currently not connected (i.e. have not received any email transmissions) and are a member of the Developmental and Structural Section, please email to the above address and you will be connected.
- William (Ned) Friedman Chair, Developmental and Structural Section
| James D. Mauseth (1997) Department of Botany University of Texas Austin, TX 78713 |
Allison A. Snow (1998) Department of Plant Biology Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 |
Nickolas M. Waser (1999) Department of Biology University of California Riverside, CA 92521 |
| P. Mick Richardson (2000) Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166 |
Vicki A. Funk (2001) Department of Botany Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560 |
