Nadia Talent

Male-sterile triploid Crataegus. Left: Crataegus ?grandis, Fort George, Ontario; Right: Crataegus succulenta, Mississauga, Ontario

Publications

Talent, Nadia 2009. Evolution of gametophytic apomixis in flowering plants: an alternative model from Maloid Rosaceae. Theory in Biosciences 128(2): 121-138. Published online 5 Mar 2009. doi:10.1007/s12064-009-0061-4 Abstract | PDF (pre-publication version, author's copyright) | Supplementary material (PDF)

Dickinson, Timothy A., Eugenia Y.Y. Lo, Nadia Talent, and Rhoda M. Love 2008. Black-fruited hawthorns of Western North America -- one or more agamic complexes? Botany 86(8), 846-865. Abstract | PDF from journal | HTML from journal

Talent, Nadia, James E. Eckenwalder, Eugenia Lo, Knud Ib Christensen, and Timothy A. Dickinson 2008. (1847) Proposal to conserve the name Crataegus against Mespilus (Rosaceae). Taxon 57(3), 1007-1008.

Talent, Nadia and Timothy A. Dickinson 2007. The potential for ploidy level increases and decreases in Crataegus (Rosaceae, Spiraeoideae, tribe Pyreae). Canadian Journal of Botany 85(6), 570-584. doi:10.1139/B07-028. Abstract | PDF from journal
Erratum to this paper: Page 577 Caption to figure 2 should read: Open circles, pollen from the tetraploid was used; solid circles, pollen from the diploid was used.

Talent, Nadia and Timothy A. Dickinson 2007. Apomixis and hybridization in Rosaceae subtribe Pyrineae Dumort.: a new tool promises new insights. In Apomixis: Evolution, Mechanisms and Perspectives, edited by E. Hörandl, U. Grossniklaus, P. J. Van Dijk, and T. Sharbel. Regnum Vegetabile 147, International Association for Plant Taxonomy and Koeltz Scientific Books, Vienna, pp. 301-316. (Copyright © 2007, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, A-1030 Vienna, Austria. E-mail: office@iapt-taxon.org)

Talent, Nadia and Timothy A. Dickinson 2007. Endosperm formation in aposporous Crataegus (Rosaceae, Spiraeoideae, tribe Pyreae): parallels to Ranunculaceae and Poaceae. New Phytologist, 173(2): 231-249. Abstract | PDF | Definitive version at Blackwell Synergy (doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01918.x)
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Dickinson, Timothy A., Eugenia Lo, and Nadia Talent 2007. Polyploidy, reproductive biology, and Rosaceae: understanding evolution and making classifications. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 266(1-2): 59-78.  Abstract

Talent, Nadia and Timothy A. Dickinson 2005. Polyploidy in Crataegus and Mespilus (Rosaceae, Maloideae): evolutionary inferences from flow cytometry of nuclear DNA amounts. Canadian Journal of Botany 83(10): 1268-1304.  Abstract | PDF
Erratum to this paper: Crataegus okennonii is in series Douglasianae sens. str., not series Purpureofructi; see: Phipps, J.B., O'Kennon, R.J. 1998. Three new species of Crataegus (Rosaceae) from Western North America: C. okennonii, C. okanaganensis, and C. phippsii. Sida Contributions to Botany 18(1): 169-191.

Theses

Talent, Nadia 2006. Gametophytic apomixis, hybridization, and polyploidy in Crataegus (Rosaceae), PhD thesis, University of Toronto, Department of Botany. (Supervisor: Timothy A. Dickinson.) Abstract.

Talent, Nadia 1998. Quantitative traits from leaf morphology in some North American species and hybrids of Populus sections Aigeiros and Tacamahaca (Salicaceae). MSc thesis, University of Toronto, Department of Botany. (Supervisor: James E. Eckenwalder.).

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