[meetyeti] Fwd: Talk by Prof. David Dilcher, Indiana University - 3 Feb 2015, 4.00 pm @ ARI Pune
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- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:15:10 +0530
Might be of interest to those in Pune.
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From: Karthick Bala <diatomist@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:10 PM
Subject: Talk by Prof. David Dilcher, Indiana University - 3 Feb 2015,
4.00 pm @ ARI Pune
To: meet.yeti@xxxxxxxxx
Please circulate.
You are cordially invited to a talk entitled
The Symbiotic Evolution of Flowering Plants
By
Prof. David L. Dilcher
Department of Geological Sciences
,
Indiana University, Bloomington
. USA
In the Agharkar Research Institute Auditorium
, Pune
at 4.00 pm on Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Abstract:
Major innovations in living systems are very often associated with a
new symbiotic relationship between two forms of life. This has been
true since the origin of life and its early diversification by
endosymbiosis. Land plant evolution began as a product of such shared
living between fungi and green algae. The important basic characters
of land plants that allow them to accommodate their environments are
modified from the simplest early land plants to more complex forms,
ultimately including flowering plants. Part of this accommodation
included changes in the reproductive biology of land plants,
especially in concert with their changing biotic environments, which
resulted in the evolution of flowering plants. The flowering plants we
know today are the products of diverse evolutionary paths developed
through symbiotic relationships with animals. Angiosperm pollination
biology and fruit and seed dispersal are examples of these symbiotic
relationships which developed as diverse modifications over a period
of nearly 60 million years. The flowers we see today and the fruits we
eat have had a long and involved history. Humans are a part of this
evolution and we owe our existence to this long co-evolution between
plants and animals. Now we are active participants in the evolution of
flowering plants with our development of new genetic strains and
genetically modified flowering plants.
Tea will be served near auditorium at 3. 40 pm
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