Thursday, August 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Santa Clara II, San Jose Hilton
COS 139 - Selection and adaptation I: Plants under environmental selection
1:30 PMCOS 139-1Stress and domestication traits increase relative fitness of crop-wild hybrids
Kristin L. Mercer, The Ohio State University, David A. Andow, University of Minnesota, Donald L. Wyse, University of Minnesota, Ruth G. Shaw, University of Minnesota
1:50 PMCOS 139-2Independent evolution of suites of leaf and root functional traits in grassland plants
Steven W. Kembel, University of California Berkeley
2:10 PMCOS 139-3Evolution of a native blueberry (Vaccinium elliottii) in a spatially and temporally heterogeneous landscape
Jill T. Anderson, Cornell University
2:30 PMCOS 139-4Effects of gene flow and local adaptation on the distribution of an intertidal alga
Cynthia G. Hays, University of California - Davis
2:50 PMCOS 139-5A change in climate causes rapid evolution of multiple life-history traits in an annual plant
Steven J. Franks, The University of California Irvine, Arthur E. Weis, The University of California Irvine
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 139-6Red stems in Apocynum cannabinum plants under stress: Plasticity, genetic variation, and function
Dana A. Dudle, DePauw University, Allison C. Barnes, DePauw University, Erica J. Ross, DePauw University, David T. Furman, DePauw University, Lauren M. Guggina, DePauw University, Nicole R. Stone, DePauw University
3:40 PMCOS 139-7Drought-induced differences in gene expression in parental and hybrid plants of the Piriqueta caroliniana complex
Heather E. Machado, Portland State University, Mitchell B. Cruzan, Portland State University
4:00 PMCOS 139-8Responses to salinity in the freshwater marsh plant, Iris hexagona: Local adaptation or plasticity?
Sharmila Pathikonda, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Susan Mopper, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
4:20 PMCOS 139-9Seasonal timing of rainfall influences hydraulic and leaf trait evolution in evergreen shrubs
Radika Bhaskar, UC Berkeley, Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, UNAM, Todd Dawson, UC Berkeley, David Ackerly, UC Berkeley

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