22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, HUH Seminar Room 125
Yong Yang, Associate Professor Institute of Botany, Beijing, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Topic: Taxonomy and conservation of Asian Lauraceae
Abstract: The Lauraceae belong to the Laurales of primitive angiosperms. Plants of the family are mostly tall trees and occupy canopy of tropical/subtropical forests. These trees are well-known for their economic uses, e.g. fruits, spices, excellent wood, and oil etc. However, their taxonomy is notorious. I will give a few cases on...
22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, HUH Seminar Room 125
Luíza Teixeira-Costa, Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard University Herbaria
Topic: Comparative studies of the haustorial system in parasitic plants: structural and evolutionary perspectives
Abstract: The parasitic lifestyle has repeatedly evolved in several occasions in the tree of life. Among plants, parasitic clades are currently believed to have diverged at least 12 times independently, comprising over 1% of the extant diversity of Angiosperms. This diversity is united by the presence of a particular organ...