I J Leitch

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Affiliation: Royal Botanic Gardens
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Punctuated genome size evolution in Liliaceae
    I J Leitch
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
    J Evol Biol 20:2296-308. 2007
  2. ncbi Evolution of DNA amounts across land plants (embryophyta)
    I J Leitch
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
    Ann Bot 95:207-17. 2005
  3. ncbi Genome size diversity in orchids: consequences and evolution
    I J Leitch
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK
    Ann Bot 104:469-81. 2009
  4. ncbi Plant genome horizons: Michael Bennett's contribution to genome research
    I J Leitch
    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, UK
    Ann Bot (Lond) 101:737-46. 2008
  5. ncbi The ups and downs of genome size evolution in polyploid species of Nicotiana (Solanaceae)
    I J Leitch
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
    Ann Bot 101:805-14. 2008
  6. ncbi Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms: progress, problems and prospects
    M D Bennett
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK
    Ann Bot 95:45-90. 2005
  7. ncbi Plant genome size research: a field in focus
    M D Bennett
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK
    Ann Bot 95:1-6. 2005
  8. ncbi Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms: targets, trends and tomorrow
    M D Bennett
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
    Ann Bot 107:467-590. 2011
  9. ncbi Ecological and genetic factors linked to contrasting genome dynamics in seed plants
    A R Leitch
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
    New Phytol 194:629-46. 2012
  10. ncbi Genomic plasticity and the diversity of polyploid plants
    A R Leitch
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
    Science 320:481-3. 2008

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Publications13

  1. ncbi Punctuated genome size evolution in Liliaceae
    I J Leitch
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
    J Evol Biol 20:2296-308. 2007
    ..We consider that the large genome sizes of Liliaceae may have emerged passively rather than being driven primarily by selection...
  2. ncbi Evolution of DNA amounts across land plants (embryophyta)
    I J Leitch
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
    Ann Bot 95:207-17. 2005
    ..g. Plant DNA C-values database; release 2.0, January 2003; http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/cval/homepage.html) together with improved consensus of relationships between and within land plant groups makes such an analysis timely...
  3. ncbi Genome size diversity in orchids: consequences and evolution
    I J Leitch
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK
    Ann Bot 104:469-81. 2009
    ..Nevertheless within angiosperms the majority of families are characterized by genomes which are small and vary little. Species with large genomes are mostly restricted to a few monocots families including Orchidaceae...
  4. ncbi Plant genome horizons: Michael Bennett's contribution to genome research
    I J Leitch
    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, UK
    Ann Bot (Lond) 101:737-46. 2008
  5. ncbi The ups and downs of genome size evolution in polyploid species of Nicotiana (Solanaceae)
    I J Leitch
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
    Ann Bot 101:805-14. 2008
    ..Recent advances in understanding phylogenetic relationships of Nicotiana species and dating polyploid formation enable a temporal dimension to be added to the analysis of genome size evolution in these polyploids...
  6. ncbi Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms: progress, problems and prospects
    M D Bennett
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK
    Ann Bot 95:45-90. 2005
    ..The last compilation was published in 2000, so a further supplementary list is timely to monitor progress against targets set at the first plant genome size workshop in 1997 and to facilitate new goal setting...
  7. ncbi Plant genome size research: a field in focus
    M D Bennett
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK
    Ann Bot 95:1-6. 2005
    ..The paper offers a vision of how increased knowledge and understanding of genome size will contribute to holisitic genomic studies in both plants and animals in the next decade...
  8. ncbi Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms: targets, trends and tomorrow
    M D Bennett
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
    Ann Bot 107:467-590. 2011
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  9. ncbi Ecological and genetic factors linked to contrasting genome dynamics in seed plants
    A R Leitch
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
    New Phytol 194:629-46. 2012
    ..Together these processes have led to increased rates of genetic divergence and faster fixation times of variation in many angiosperms compared with gymnosperms...
  10. ncbi Genomic plasticity and the diversity of polyploid plants
    A R Leitch
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
    Science 320:481-3. 2008
    ..This process has been a major driving force behind the divergence of the angiosperms and their biodiversity...
  11. ncbi First nuclear DNA amounts in more than 300 angiosperms
    B J M Zonneveld
    Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Ann Bot (Lond) 96:229-44. 2005
    ..kew.org/cval/workshopreport.html). Hopefully, the present example will encourage others to unveil further valuable data which otherwise may lie forever unpublished and unavailable for comparative analyses...
  12. ncbi Genomic relationships among diploid and hexaploid species of Andropogon (Poaceae)
    G Norrmann
    , C.C.209 (3400, Argentina
    Genome 47:1220-4. 2004
    ..lateralis Nees and Andropogon bicornis L. The evolutionary and taxonomic implications of these findings are discussed...
  13. ncbi Loss and recovery of Arabidopsis-type telomere repeat sequences 5'-(TTTAGGG)(n)-3' in the evolution of a major radiation of flowering plants
    S P Adams
    School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
    Proc Biol Sci 268:1541-6. 2001
    ..The mechanism(s) by which such recovery may have occurred is unknown, but possibilities include horizontal gene transfer and sequence reamplification...