Nadia Talent

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

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.).

Publications

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 [in press]. (1847) Proposal to conserve the name Crataegus against Mespilus (Rosaceae). Taxon 57(3).

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

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.  Abstract

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

Conference Presentations and Posters

Talent, Nadia, 2007. Evolution of pseudogamous apospory -- an alternative model from Maloid Rosaceae. 3rd International Congress on Apomixis, Wernigerode, Germany.

Dickinson, Timothy A., Eugenia Lo, and Nadia Talent  2006. Lewis and ClarkÕs black-fruited hawthorns 200 years later. Botany 2006, Chico, California.

Dickinson, Timothy A., Eugenia Lo, and Nadia Talent  2006. Crataegus and Mespilus: two genera or one?  Annual Meeting of the CBA/ABC, Montreal.

Talent, Nadia, and Timothy A. Dickinson  2005.  Perspectives on apomixis and taxonomy from Rosaceae subfamily Maloideae: better tools mean a less thorny problem.  International Botanical Congress, Vienna.

Dickinson, Timothy A., Eugenia Lo, and Nadia Talent  2005. Evolution of Maloideae with a focus on Crataegus. International Botanical Congress, Vienna.

Talent, Nadia and Timothy A. Dickinson  2003. Ploidy level variation and breeding behaviour of Crataegus (Rosaceae): data from flow cytometry. CBA/CSPP Plant Canada meeting, Antigonish, NS.

Talent, Nadia, and Timothy A. Dickinson  2003.  Polyploidy of embryo and endosperm in sexual and apomictic Crataegus: data from flow cytometry.  37th Plant Development Workshop, Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, Ontario.

Talent, Nadia and Timothy A. Dickinson  2002. Poster: Fruit and seed formation from inter-ploidy and intersectional pollination in Crataegus (Rosaceae). Botany 2002, Madison, WI.

Talent, Nadia and James E. Eckenwalder  1999.  Poster: Graphical manipulation that straightens the midveins of leaves promises to improve the consistency of morphometric measurements.  International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri.

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