[ Library Resources ]
Library resources are a potential source of authors, books, key words, phrases, journal titles, and topics to aid teachers, students, and researchers as they conduct their personal computer searches in Google Scholar or elsewhere for published work on the origin of angiosperms and related subjects.
A separate Reading List of Books and Book Chapters published during the last decade is located on another page.
I also provide a list of Relevant Scientific Articles of Year 2009, which is available on another page of this web site.
Publication of the Year:
Each year I will be select a scientific paper, book chapter, or book as being of paramount importance toward finding a solution to the enigmatic origin of flowering plants (angiosperms). Based on a survey of scientific literature published in 2009 the publication of the year is:
Taylor, T. N., E. L. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2009. Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, Second Edition. Burlington: Elsevier Academic Press, 1230 pages ... LINK
Previous Publication of the Year:
Hamès, C., D. Ptchelkine, C. Grimm, E. Thevenon, E. Moyroud, F. Gérard, J.-L. Martiel, R. Benlloch, F. Parcy, and C. W. Müller. 2008. Structural basis for LEAFY floral switch function and similarity with helix-turn-helix proteins. The EMBO Journal 27: 2628-2637.
Theißen, G. and R. Melzer. 2007. Molecular mechanisms underlying origin and diversification of the angiosperm flower. Annals of Botany 100(3): 1-17.
Baum, D. A. and L. C. Hileman. 2006. A developmental genetic model for the origin of the flower. Pp. 3-27 In: C. Ainsworth (ed.), Volume 20, Annual Plant Reviews, Flowering and Its Manipulation. Sheffield: Blackwell, 304 pp.
Soltis, D. E., P. S. Soltis, P. K. Endress, and M. W. Chase. 2005. Phylogeny and Evolution of Angiosperms. Sunderland: Sinauer, 370 pp.
Hochuli, P. A. and S. Feist-Burkhardt. 2004. A boreal early cradle of angiosperms? Angiosperm-like pollen from the Middle Triassic of the Barents Sea (Norway). Journal of Micropalaeontology 23: 97-104.
The spectacular purplish conglomerate rock exposure is an outcrop of the Paleogene Sespe Sandstone Formation. Sandstone cliffs have kept the incidence of catastrophic wildfire to a minimum allowing three pinids to survive on ledges and crevices of rock formations in this area: Abies concolor (white fir), Pinus lambertiana (sugar pine), and Pseudotsuga macrocarpa (big cone Douglas fir).
The Sespe Sandstone block of the Topa Topa Mountains between Bear Heaven and Santa Paula Peak containing biogeographically significant populations of pinids probably originated on a craton making up this part of the Californian Transverse Ranges, which was transported to its present location within 30 km of the Pacific Ocean by plate tectonics.
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