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Carol A. Furness
Researcher at Royal Botanic Gardens
Publications - 66
Citations - 2368
Carol A. Furness is an academic researcher from Royal Botanic Gardens. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pollen & Monophyly. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 66 publications receiving 2228 citations.
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Pollen aperture evolution--a crucial factor for eudicot success?
Carol A. Furness,Paula J. Rudall +1 more
TL;DR: Increased aperture number in angiosperm pollen grains offers a potential selective advantage because it increases the number of prospective germination sites, thus facilitating contact between at least one aperture and the stigmatic surface.
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Microsporogenesis in Monocotyledons
Carol A. Furness,Paula J. Rudall +1 more
TL;DR: This paper critically reviews the distribution of microsporogenesis types in relation to recent concepts in monocot systematics and notes that simultaneous microsporaogenesis is of phylogenetic significance within some of these groups, for example, Asparagales, Dioscoreales and Poales.
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A Plastid gene phylogeny of the yam genus, Dioscorea : Roots, fruits and madagascar
Paul Wilkin,Peter Schols,Mark W. Chase,Kongkanda Chayamarit,Carol A. Furness,Suzy Huysmans,Franck Rakotonasolo,Erik Smets,Chirdsak Thapyai +8 more
TL;DR: A phylogenetic analysis based on sequence data from the plastid genes rbcL and matK is presented, using 67 species of Dioscorea and covering all the main Old World and selected New World lineages, and finds that a clade of rhizomatous taxa is sister to the rest of Diocorea.
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Microsporogenesis and pollen sulcus type in Asparagales (Lilianae)
TL;DR: Cladistic analysis of molecular data (plastid rbcL sequences) supports the interpretation of simultaneous microsporogenesis as an apomorphy for Asparagales (Lilianae), with a reversal in the most derived 'higher' asparagoid clade, which is entirely successive.
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Evolution of Microsporogenesis in Angiosperms
TL;DR: The predominance of simultaneous microsporogenesis in extant basal angiosperms and in land plants in general indicates that simultaneous microSporogenesis is plesiomorphic in angios perms, despite the occurrence of the successive type in the putative first‐branching extant angiosperm, Amborella, which contradicts earlier views on the evolutionary polarity of this character.