Integrative Taxonomy of Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Systematics, Taxonomy, Nomenclature and Classification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 41679
Special Issue Editors
2. Laboratory of Herbarium, National Research Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
Interests: integrative taxonomy of plants; systematics; floristics; molecular genetics; cytogenetics; chemotaxonomy; cryptic species; hybrids; geophytes; endemics; biodiversity conservation; Ranunculales; Primulaceae; Fabaceae; Caryophillaceae; Liliaceae
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biodiversity conservation and management call for rapid and accurate global assessments at the species level. At the same time, the rapid development of evolutionary biology with a spectrum of approaches to test species relationships and species limits has revolutionized and is still revolutionizing the science of plant systematics including taxonomy. Even if debate remains about the hierarchy of the types of characters and criteria to use for species delimitation, most, if not all, taxonomists agree that objectively evaluating several lines of evidence within a formalized framework is the most efficient and theoretically grounded approach to defining robust species hypotheses. Taxonomic workflow integrating multiple lines of evidence is proposed to facilitate the subsequent formal species description for plants, accommodating most species concepts, delimitation criteria, and data analysis methods. Species complexes are groups in which species limits and hence species numbers are unclear. Integration of various data can be useful in solving hybridization, describing new taxa, studying cryptic species, and identifying synonyms among the entire biological diversity of previously described species. This Special Issue of Plants provides an excellent opportunity for the evaluation of your new results and experiences in the integrative taxonomy plants. This issue welcomes integrative data on morphology, genetics, cytogenetics, genomics, biochemistry, cytogenetics, and other areas of modern botany. Manuscripts for all groups of plants, algae, cyanobacteria are welcome.
Dr. Andrey Erst
Dr. Yevhen Maltsev
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Integrative taxonomy
- evolution
- biodeversity
- morphology
- genetics
- genomics
- cytogenetics
- chemotaxonomy
- cryptic species
- hybrids
- new species
- plants
- algae
- cyanobacteria
- fungi
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