The Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, published quarterly since 1914, contains peer-reviewed papers primarily devoted to systematic botany and evolution. The Annals reflect the global mission of the Garden, with contributing authors from the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australasia.
Systematics Agenda 2000, a published report on a global initiative to discover, describe, and classify the world`s species, was the inspiration for this year`s Symposium. The speakers provided an overview of the diversity of systematic studies and the impact of these on the study of evolution, conservation, food supplies, disease sources, and disease prevention. Issue contains other papers.
CONTENTS OF THE ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, VOL. 83, NUMBER 1
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Systematics Symposium of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Systematics Agenda 2000, held 30 September - 1 October, 1004 in St. Louis
● Introduction to the Symposium. P. Mick Richardson
● The Use of Phylogenetic Perspective in Comparative Plant Physiology and Developmental Biology. Russell K. Monson
● Systematics Solves Problems in Agriculture and Forestry. Amy Y. Rossman & Douglass R. Miller
● Fisheries Agencies and Marine Biodiversity. Michael Vecchione & Bruce B. Collette
● Importance of Systematics to Public Health: Ticks, Microbes, and Disease. James H. Oliver, Jr.
● Systematics and the Conservation of Biological Diversity. R. I. Vane-Wright
● Transforming Ethnobotany for the New Millennium. Michael J. Balick
The Prosoeca peringueyi (Diptera: Nemestrinidae) Pollination Guild in Southern Africa: Long-tongued Flies and Their Tubular Flowers. John C. Manning & Peter Goldblatt
Revision of Pavetta Subgenus Baconia (Rubiaceae: Ixoroideae) in Cameroon. Stephen D. Manning
Erratum for the ITS Region of Nuclear Ribosomal DNA: A Valuable Source of Evidence on Angiosperm Phylogeny. Bruce G. Baldwin, Michael J. Sanderson, J. Mark Porter, Martin F. Wojciechowski, Christopher S. Campbell & Michael J. Donoghue