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Presented By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Warren Herb Wagner Virtual Guest Lecture in Plant Evolution: Untangling the cryptic biology of the world’s largest flowers

Chuck Davis, Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Curator of Vascular Plants, Harvard University Herbaria

Rafflesia arnoldii, copyright Jeremy Holden Rafflesia arnoldii, copyright Jeremy Holden
Rafflesia arnoldii, copyright Jeremy Holden
Charles Davis is Professor of Biology at Harvard University and Curator of Vascular Plants at the Harvard University Herbaria. He uses collections-oriented and phylogenetic research to investigate plant evolution and ecology in a variety of tropical and temperate clades.

Abstract
Parasitic plants have remained a great mystery in the flowering plant tree of life. Among the most iconic and bizarre are the Rafflesiaceae, which produce the world’s largest flowers. I will illustrate our efforts to untangle evolutionary relationships of this charismatic family, expose the developmental underpinnings of their massive flowers, and reveal the genomic basis of extreme plant parasitism.

Image copyright: Jeremy Holden
Rafflesia arnoldii, copyright Jeremy Holden Rafflesia arnoldii, copyright Jeremy Holden
Rafflesia arnoldii, copyright Jeremy Holden

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January 20, 2022 (Thursday) 4:00pm
Meeting ID: 96295962346

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