• 1. Chloroplast DNA and the Study of Plant Phylogeny: Present Status and Future Prospects.- 2. Use of Chloroplast DNA Rearrangements in Reconstructing Plant Phylogeny.- 3. Mitochondrial DNA in Plant Systematics: Applications and Limitations.- 4. Ribosomal RNA as a Phylogenetic Tool in Plant Systematics.- 5. Evolution of the Nor and 5SDna Loci in the Triticeae.- 6. Intraspecific Chloroplast DNA Variation: Systematic and Phylogenetic Implications.- 7. Molecular Evidence and Plant Introgression.- 8. Molecular Data and Polypoid Evolution in Plants.- 9. Molecular Systematics and Crop Evolution.- 10. Contributions of Molecular Data to Papilionoid Legume Systematics.- 11. Chloroplast DNA Variation in the Asteraceae: Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Implications.- 12. Chloroplast DNA Restriction Site Variation and the Evolution of the Annual Habit in North American Coreopsis (Asteraceae).- 13. Molecular Systematics of Onagraceae: Examples from Clarkia and Fuchsia.- 14. Floral Morphology and Chromosome Number in Subtribe Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae): Evolutionary Insights From a Phylogenetic Analysis of Chloroplast DNA Restriction Site Variation.- 15. The Suitability of Molecular and Morphological Evidence in Reconstructing Plant Phylogeny.- 16. Character-State Weighting for Restriction Site Data in Phylogenetic Reconstruction, with an Example from Chloroplast DNA.- 17. Polymorphism, Hybridization, and Variable Evolutionary Rate in Molecular Phylogenies.

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