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Systematics Section

Givnish, Thomas J. [1], Ané, Cecile [2], Davis, Jerrold I. [3], dePamphilis, Claude W. [4], Gandolfo, Maria [5], Graham, Sean W. [6], Leebens-Mack, James H. [7], Pires, J. Chris [8], Stevenson, Dennis Wm. [9], Zomlefer, W. B. [10], McCombie, Richard [11], Ames, Mercedes [12], Kinney, Michael S. [13], McNeal, Joel R. [7], Thadeo, Marcela [14].

From Acorus to Zingiber – assembling the phylogeny of the monocotyledons.

Monocots comprise more than 65,000 species of flowering plants, occur in most habitats and dominate several, and provide the basis for the great majority of the human diet. They also account for much of the commerce in bulbs and cut flowers. With support from the NSF Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) Program, we – and more than 30 collaborators worldwide – plan to use a revolutionary approach to develop a definitive family tree for the monocots over the next five years, and then use that tree to infer relationships among different groups and their evolutionary history across the globe. To do this, we will sequence the entire plastid genome and all mitochondrial genes for some 600 species representing every monocot family and subfamily. We will also sequence several single-copy nuclear genes for a nested subset of 150 species, and 50-100 transcriptomes. The transcriptomes alone will provide information on thousands of nuclear genes. The resulting avalanche of genetic information from all three plant genomes should provide the basis for the most powerful analysis of evolutionary relationships among any group of organisms studied to date. We will also score 600 extant monocots and 75 fossils for 200 morphological characters, enabling us to determine which traits characterize different groups, and how they have evolved over time. The resulting insights into monocot phylogeny should provide the foundation for many new studies in physiology, ecology, biogeography, and genomics. Studying transcriptomes may identify many new genes associated with traits absent from model plants. Comparisons of nuclear, mitochondrial and plastid genes from diverse monocots should greatly enhance our understanding of gene and genome evolution in angiosperms. Web access to the data, family trees, and conclusions from the study will be provided to researchers, students, and teachers around the world.


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1 - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Botany, 430 Lincoln Drive, Birge Hall, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
2 - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Botany, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI, 53706
3 - Cornell University, L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Department of Plant Biology, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA
4 - Pennsylvania State University, Department of Biology, 403 Life Sciences Building, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA
5 - Cornell University, LH Bailey Hortorium, Department of Pant Biology, 410 Mann Library Biulding, Ithaca, NY, 14853-4301, USA
6 - University of British Columbia, Botanical Garden And Centre For Plant Research, 6804 Sw Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
7 - University of Georgia, Department of Plant Biology, 4504 Miller Plant Sciences, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
8 - University of Missouri Columbia, Biological Sciences, 1201 Rollins Road, Life Sciences Center 311, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
9 - The New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street & Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY, 10458, USA
10 - University of Georgia, Department of Plant Biology, 2052 Miller Plant Sciences Building, Athens, Georgia, 30602-7271, USA
11 - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Lita Annenberg Hazen Genome Center, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
12 - University of Wisconsin, Botany, 430 Lincoln Dr, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
13 - University of Missouri-Columbia, Biological Sciences, 311 Life Sciences Center, 1201 Rollins St, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
14 - New York Botanical Garden, Science, 200th Street and Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY, 10458, USA

Keywords:
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Presentation Type: Oral Paper:Papers for BSA Sections
Session: 20
Location: Cottonwood A/Snowbird Center
Date: Monday, July 27th, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM
Number: 20001
Abstract ID:705