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Monday, July 28th

Monday, July 28th, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm · Ball Room & Party Room/SUB
Session P: Contributed Posters: Recent Topics Posters
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PRT001Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBAbsorption of Direct, Diffuse, and Low-angle Light by Plant Leaves
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Recent Topics PosterBrodersen, Craig; Vogelmann, Thomas C..light
Photosynthesis
Diffuse Radiation
Absorption
ecophysiology
PRT002Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBX-ray µCT as a developing tool for 3D tissue realization within an herbaceous wetland plant, Eriophorum vaginatum
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Recent Topics PosterBogart, Sarah J.; Cholewa, Ewa; Spiers, Graeme; Elliot, Thomas R..Eriophorum vaginatum
X-ray computed tomography
corm
tissue morphology
herbaceous plant
PRT003Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBExploiting the handedness of root twisting to map MOR1’s interaction with tubulin in the control of microtubule dynamics
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Recent Topics PosterZhang, Yi; Wasteneys, Geoffrey.Root twisting
MAP-tubulin interaction
MOR1
microtubule dynamics
PRT004Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBSystematics of Calendula (Asteraceae): Toward a robust molecular phylogeny and a hypothesis of chemical diversification within the genus
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Recent Topics PosterPlume, Olofron.Calendula
molecular systematics
chemical diversity
PRT005Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBMinimum pulses of stable and radioactive carbon isotopes to detect belowground carbon transfer between plants
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Recent Topics PosterPhilip, Leanne J; Simard, Suzanne W..Isotopes
carbon transfer
Mycorrhizae
PRT006Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBAn inexpensive cryo-system for sliding microtome and light microscopy
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Recent Topics PosterKitin, Peter; Lachenbruch, Barbara; Beeckman, Hans.fluorescence
cold stage
cryo-light microscopy
cryo-microtome
plant structure
Water relations
PRT007Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBFactors Governing Pollinator Parasitism in a South Texas Water Lily (Nymphaea elegans)
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Recent Topics PosterTamez, Claudia A.; Davelos Baines, Anita; McDonald, Andrew.South Texas
University of Texas Pan-American
plant-pollinator interaction
water lily
Claudia Tamez
Anita Baines
Andrew McDonald
mortality rates
Nymphaea
PRT008Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBAssessing the frequency of clonal reproduction in Fagus grandifolia in Great Smoky Mountains National Park using microsatellites
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Recent Topics PosterHowell, Jacquelyn S.; Morris, Ashley B..Fagus grandifolia
clonal reproduction
microsatellites
Great Smoky Mountains
PRT009Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBGeneral Considerations for the Production of Identity Reference Materials for Botanical Dietary Supplements and Natural Health Products
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Recent Topics PosterBetz, Joseph M.; Fisher, Kenneth D.; Saldanha, Leila G.; NguyenPho, Agnes; Sharpless, Katherine E.; Sander, Lane C.; Wise, Stephen A.; Roman, Mark C..Biomedical Research
Identity Reference Materials
Certified Reference Materials
Herbal dietary supplement
Natural Health Products
AOAC International
PRT010Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBComparison of Nine Noncoding Chloroplast Regions for Phylogenetic Inference at the Infrageneric Level
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Recent Topics PosterMiller, Jill S.; Kamath, Ambika; Levin, Rachel A..cpDNA
Lycieae
Lycium
molecular systematics
noncoding chloroplast DNA
phylogeny
Solanaceae
PRT011Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBIs the Clonal Rare Spiraea virginiana Capable of Sexual Reproduction?
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Recent Topics PosterBrzyski, Jessica; Culley, Theresa M..clonality
self-incompatibility
Spiraea virginiana
PRT012Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBMating strategies & pollen limitation in a globally threatened perennial Polemonium vanbruntiae
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Recent Topics PosterHill, Laura M.; Brody, Alison K.; Tedesco, Connie L..pollen limitation
mixed mating system
self-compatibility
clonal plant
Polemoniaceae
rare plant
reproductive assurance
PRT013Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBFairchild Plant Biology Initiative (Anatomy of Palms (Arecaceae): Diversity and evolution)
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Recent Topics PosterTomlinson, P. Barry; Fisher, Jack B.; Horn, James W.; Laubengayer, Karen M..anatomy
phylogeny
morphology
character evolution
PRT014Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBClutch Size and Pollen-Ovule Ratios in the Apocynaceae
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Recent Topics PosterStutzman, Julia; Williams, Justin.Apocynaceae
ecology
pollination
PRT015Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBComparative study of seed coat micromorphology and seed anatomy in Alaskan Oxytropis (Loco-weed, Fabaceae) using SEM, and their Taxonomic Significance
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Recent Topics PosterFarrington, Rose; Meyers, Zachary; Ickert-Bond, Stefanie M..Oxytropis
seed micromorphology
seed anatomy
SEM
PRT016Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBSomatic Embryogenesis and Regeneration in Local Mungbean (Vigna Radiate L)
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Recent Topics PosterMalhi, Mahadev.Embryo development
dev
PRT017Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBThe first insight into fern matK phylogeny
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Recent Topics PosterKuo, Li-Yaung; Li, Fay-Wei; Wang, Chun-Neng.Fern
matK
phylogeny
barcoding
chloroplast marker
PRT018Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBFinding a pine needle in a haystack: Using microread sequencing of the chloroplast genome to locate cryptic genetic diversity in the narrow endemic Pinus torreyana
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Recent Topics PosterWhittall, Justen B.; Buenrostro, Jason; Parks, Matthew; Cronn, RC; Liston, Aaron.Pinus torreyana
chloroplast genome
microread
San Diego
Santa Rosa Island
conservation genomics
PRT019Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBLiving on the edge: exploring the mechanisms of high-temperature tolerance in geothermal moss
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Recent Topics PosterLlaneza-Garcia, Estefania; Rosenstiel, Todd; Eppley, Sarah.isoprene
temperature stress
chlorophyll fluorescence
moss
geothermal
PRT020Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBRole of Bioinformation in Phycology
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Recent Topics Posterchaturvedi, sangeeta.bioinformatics
Phycology
PRT021Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBIntraspecific variation in germination characteristics and herbicide sensitivity in geographically distinct populations of eight wild plant species
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Recent Topics PosterWhite, Andrea L.; Boutin, Céline.intraspecific variation
Germination
herbicide sensitivity
PRT022Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBPhylogeography of the parasitic plant genus Conopholis (Cancer-Root; Orobanchaceae)
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Recent Topics PosterRodrigues, Anuar; Colwell, Alison; Stefanovic, Sasa.Conopholis
Southern Refugia Hypothesis
PRT023Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBRecent, rapid adaptive radiation of Hawaiian Bidens (Asteraceae)
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Recent Topics PosterKnope, Matthew.adaptive radiation
phylogeny
Asteraceae
molecular marker
Hawaiian Islands
Bidens
PRT024Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBBiogeography and predictive niche-modeling of invasive or non-native North American species of dayflower (Commelina, Commelinaceae)
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Recent Topics PosterBrakeall, John; Sloat, Lindsey; Hardy, Christopher R..climatic envelope
mitigate
PRT025Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBIs there a latitudinal cline in cold tolerance in Arabidopsis lyrata subspecies kamchatica?
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Recent Topics PosterBeecher, Jessica; Wolf, Diana; Takebayashi, Naoki.stress tolerance
freezing tolerance
cold acclimation
PRT026Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBA preliminary examination of subspecific classification within Phoradendron serotinum (Santalaceae): development of microsatellite markers for assessment of population genetic structure
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Recent Topics PosterHawkins, Angela; Randle, Christopher P..Phoradendron serotinum
Santalaceae
microsatellites
PRT027Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBHybrid or Species: Unraveling the Taxonomic Status of Murdannia discreta (Commelinaceae), a Rare Plant from Thailand
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Recent Topics PosterLiao, Irene; Faden, Robert B..Murdannia
Commelinaceae
hybrids
Speciation
PRT028Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBComparative ontogeny of compound leaves: deciphering the enigmatic 3-parted leaf of the bishopwood tree (Bischofia; Phyllanthaceae)
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Recent Topics PosterFlorez, Ana Marcela; Wurdack, Kenneth.Bishofia
compound leaf
Leaf development
domatia
mutant leaves
PRT029Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBMenispermaceae leaves from the Paleocene of Colombia
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Recent Topics PosterDoria, Gabriela; Jaramillo, Carlos; Herrera, Fabiany.Paleocene
Colombia
Menispermaceae
Paleobotany
PRT030Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBMore evidence that mutation rate in the chloroplast genome depends on copy number
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Recent Topics PosterDutton, Ashley; Raubeson, Linda A..chloroplast genome
mutation rate
Inverted repeat
copy correction
PRT031Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBEvaluating insects as pollinators of virgin flowers of tristylous purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L.) by pollen tube fluorescence
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Recent Topics PosterCaswell, Wade D.; Davis, Arthur R..Lythrum salicaria
pollination
insects
pollen tubes
microscopy
fluorescence
flowers
PRT032Jul 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jul 29, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ball Room & Party Room/SUBEffects of triclosan on seed germination and seedling development of four wetland plant species grown in a continuous flow-through system
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Recent Topics PosterAdhikari, Sajag; Kim, Seonyoung; Stevens, Kevin; Venables, Barney J.triclosan
Wetland Plants
Bidens bidentoides
Eclipta prostrata
Sesbania herbaceae
Cyperus erythrorhizos
seedling growth
Germination

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