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Abstracts of the Monocots VI.Pdf ABSTRACTS OF THE MONOCOTS VI Monocots for all: building the whole from its parts Natal, Brazil, October 7th-12th, 2018 2nd World Congress of Bromeliaceae Evolution – Bromevo 2 7th International Symposium on Grass Systematics and Evolution III Symposium on Neotropical Araceae ABSTRACTS OF THE MONOCOTS VI Leonardo M. Versieux & Lynn G. Clark (Editors) 6th International Conference on the Comparative Biology of Monocotyledons 7th International Symposium on Grass Systematics and Evolution 2nd World Congress of Bromeliaceae Evolution – BromEvo 2 III Symposium on Neotropical Araceae Natal, Brazil 07 - 12 October 2018 © Herbário UFRN and EDUFRN This publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted for educational purposes, in any form or by any means, if you cite the original. Available at: https://repositorio.ufrn.br DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8111591 For more information, please check the article “An overview of the Sixth International Conference on the Comparative Biology of Monocotyledons - Monocots VI - Natal, Brazil, 2018” published in 2019 by Rodriguésia (www.scielo.br/rod). Official photos of the event in Instagram: @herbarioufrn Front cover: Cryptanthus zonatus (Vis.) Vis. (Bromeliaceae) and the Carnaúba palm Copernicia prunifera (Mill.) H.E. Moore (Arecaceae). Illustration by Klei Sousa and logo by Fernando Sousa Catalogação da Publicação na Fonte. UFRN / Biblioteca Central Zila Mamede Setor de Informação e Referência Abstracts of the Monocots VI / Leonardo de Melo Versieux; Lynn Gail Clark, organizadores. - Natal: EDUFRN, 2019. 232f. : il. ISBN 978-85-425-0880-2 1. Comparative biology. 2. Ecophysiology. 3. Monocotyledons. 4. Plant morphology. 5. Plant systematics. I. Versieux, Leonardo de Melo; Clark, Lynn Gail. II. Título. RN/UF/BCZM CDU 58 Elaborado por Raimundo Muniz de Oliveira - CRB-15/429 Abstracts of the Monocots VI 2 ABSTRACTS Keynote lectures p. 6 Symposium Talks p. 9 Posters* p. 102 Morphology, development and cellular biology p. 102 Economic botany, plant breeding and p. 136 agriculture Ecology and conservation p. 137 Monocots in society and tools to spread p. 153 knowledge about monocots Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics p. 156 Physiology and biochemistry p. 168 Systematics, evolution, biogeography p. 177 *Organized in alphabetical order, 1st author, given name Abstracts of the Monocots VI 3 Symposia: in alphabetical order - organizers 1. Advances in molecular phylogeny, systematics and evolution of Dioscoreales - Juan Viruel 2. Advances in the anatomy of the large Poales clade - Aline Oriani, Thales D. Leandro and Vera L. Scatena 3. Applied botany: Use of comparative data in horticulture, reproductive biology and systematics of Bromeliaceae - Leonardo M. Versieux 4. Biogeography, ecology and macroevolution of grasses - Maria Vorontsova, Lynn Clark and Elizabeth Kellogg 5. Ecophysiology of Bromeliaceae - Helenice Mercier 6. Evolution and diversification in Cyperaceae - Wayt Thomas 7. Genomic innovation through genome duplication: Examples from across Monocots - Michael McKain and Alex Harkess 8. Grass systematics and evolution—Plastome phylogenetics and the BOP Clade - Lynn Clark, Elizabeth Kellogg, R. Patrícia de Oliveira and Pedro Viana 9. Grass systematics, evolution and development—The PACMAD clade - Elizabeth Kellogg, Lynn Clark, R. Patrícia de Oliveira and Pedro Viana 10. Growing knowledge on monocot vegetative anatomy - Thales D. Leandro, Aline Oriani and Vera L. Scatena 11. How can anatomy contribute to understanding monocot evolutionary patterns? - Aline Oriani, Thales D. Leandro and Vera L. Scatena 12. III Symposium on Neotropical Araceae - systematics and evolution - Lívia Godinho Temponi and Ivanilza Moreira de Andrade 13. III Symposium on Neotropical Araceae – floristics, morphology and evolution - Lívia Godinho Temponi and Ivanilza Moreira de Andrade 14. Linking macro- and microevolution in Bromeliaceae - Clarisse Palma da Silva 15. Monocot mats on Gondwanan inselbergs: binding taxonomy, ecology and molecular aspects under a biogeographic view - Luiza de Paula and Stefan Porembski 16. Monocot phylogenomics I - Thomas Givnish 17. Monocot phylogenomics II - new insights on genome evolution, diversification and biogeography - Oscar Alejandro Pérez Escobar, Thomas Givnish, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, William J. Baker 18. Monocots in society and tools to spread knowledge about monocots - Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Leonardo M. Versieux 19. Neotropical Eriocaulaceae: answering evolutionary questions and supporting sustainability - Livia Echternacht 20. Orchid ecology and conservation - Edlley Pessoa 21. Palms – The ecologically most diverse tropical plant family? - Wolf L. Eiserhardt 22. Recent advances in Bromelioideae systematics, taxonomy, and evolution - Georg Zizka, Elton Leme and Juraj Paule 23. Recent advances in the systematics of Bromeliaceae - Leonardo M. Versieux 24. Setaria as a model system for monocot development and biotechnology - Adriana Pinheiro Martinelli and Marcio Alves-Ferreira 25. Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of Orchidaceae - Edlley Pessoa 26. The next generation of research on the evolution of Crassulacean acid metabolism: integrating physiology, ecology, and genomics - Karolina Heyduk 27. Understanding Amaryllidaceae evolution using different approaches - Antonio Campos-Rocha, Alan William Meerow and Julie Henriette Antoinette Dutilh 28. Zingiberales I - Evolution - Thiago Andre and Fernando Figueiredo 29. Zingiberales II - Diversity - Thiago Andre and Fernando Figueiredo Abstracts of the Monocots VI 4 Abstract reviewers Adriana Pinheiro Martinelli Alice Calvente Aline Oriani Ana Maria Benko Iseppon Carlos Roberto Fonseca Clarisse Palma-Silva Edlley M. Pessoa Eduardo Voigt Fernanda Antunes Carvalho Francisco Prosdocimi Helenice Mercier Ivanilza Moreira de Andrade Joseph Hill Williams Juliana Lichston Leonardo M. Versieux Lívia Godinho Temponi Lynn G. Clark Marccus Alves Pedro Viana Reyjane Patrícia de Oliveira Thales D. Leandro Thiago André Tânia Wendt Abstracts of the Monocots VI 5 Keynote Lectures The road to evolutionary success: insights from Mauritia flexuosa Christine Bacon1 1University of Gothenburg, Sweden. [email protected] Mauritia flexuosa has one of the widest distributions of all palms, covering millions of hectares across northern South America, where it forms extensive, high-density stands. How does a species reach this wide distribution and high abundance in the face of strong competition in hyperdiverse tropical forests as well as persist through extreme landscape and climate changes throughout the Cenozoic (last ca. 65 mya)? Evolutionary success is related to historical contingency, genetic variation, and demography. Here I present a robust approach to understanding diversification in the tribe Lepidocaryeeae, showing how clade competition contributed to persistence through geological time. Within the Mauritia lineage, I show extinction patterns using the pollen fossil record, leading to low species diversity in the genus. I also review how climatic change during the Quaternary influenced the extant demography and distribution of M. flexuosa. Mauritia flexuosa presents significant genetic differentiation among different river basins and between the Amazonian and Cerrado biomes. Touching on environmental correlations across the genome, I conclude by contrasting adaptive selection with genomic plasticity. Our work provides new insights into the historical factors that affected geographical distribution and structured genetic diversity, contributing to long-term evolutionary success. Key words: biome, demography, genetic diversity, outlier loci, phylogeny. A sceptic’s view on scientific "facts" and "concepts" Gerhard Zotz1 1University of Oldenburg, Germany and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. [email protected] Absorbed by our daily science routine and the struggle for survival ("publish or perish") we rarely pause to contemplate the way we do science, established “facts” are rarely questioned, and we easily overlook common pitfalls and problems. I want to guide the audience through a stimulating and possibly provocative journey that addresses the topics data quality, continuous vs. discontinuous variation, ambiguous data interpretation, premature generalisations, and a number of other conceptual issues. I will use numerous examples, mostly from studies with monocots, to illustrate my points. I finish my talk with a few, rather optimistic remarks on science in the times of global change and alternative facts. Key words: global change, hemiepiphytes, heteroblasty, ontogentic drift, velamen radicum. Abstracts of the Monocots VI 6 3D Biology: What we can learn from the “flat” grasses Phillip C. Klahs1, Timothy J. Gallaher2 and Lynn G. Clark3 1Iowa State University, USA; 2University of Washington, USA; 3Iowa State University, USA – CNPq/PVE Fellow, State Univ. of Feira de Santana, Bahia. [email protected] Organisms are 3-dimensional and interact with other organisms and the environment as such, but they are frequently studied in only two dimensions. Our goal is to integrate computer technology with biology to study morphology in three dimensions to gain unique insights into plant function and evolution. We discuss two examples from the grasses, in which 3D models of chlorenchyma cells and spikelets were created using paraffin sections and computer-aided design (CAD) software. We surveyed chlorenchyma cell shape for 215 species of grasses. Five major morphotypes were identified; cell shape was significantly correlated with
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