Find Experts

Experts in Plant Sciences
Soumana Datta Sumita Kachhwaha Vidya Patni Ramani Payal Lodha Rao D.V Sharma Ramavtar Sharma Manju Manmohan Arya Navneet Singh Chaudhary Gunjan Dubey Shika Gupta Amit Kotiya Anil Kumar Lalita Rishi Kesh Meena VINAY KUMAR MEENA Praveen Mohil Aparna Pareek Dr. Chandra Pal Singh Dr Richard J. Colgan View More
W. John Kress

Research Botanist & Assistant Curator
Botany
National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology
United States of America

Academician Plant Sciences
Biography

Graduate School: Ph.D. (Botany) 1981, Department of Botany, Duke University, Durham, NC. (Advisor: D.E. Stone), College: B.A. (Biology) 1975, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (Advisor: P.B. Tomlinson).

Research Intrest

Systematic Biology: systematics of Heliconia and other Zingiberales, especially with regards to reproductive biology, allozyme and molecular variation, and cladistic relationships; generic concepts in the Zingiberales; phylogeny and evolution of the monocotyledons.`Evolutionary Biology: plant reproductive biology; the evolution of breeding and pollination systems; genetic diversity and speciation in tropical angiosperms.`Conservation Biology: forest fragmentation, gene flow, and genetic variation in tropical and temperate plant species.

List of Publications
Kress WJ, Wurdack KJ, Zimmer EA, Weigt LA, Janzen DH. Use of DNA barcodes to identify flowering plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2005 Jun 7;102(23):8369-74.
Chase MW, Soltis DE, Olmstead RG, Morgan D, Les DH, Mishler BD, Duvall MR, Price RA, Hills HG, Qiu YL, Kron KA. Phylogenetics of seed plants: an analysis of nucleotide sequences from the plastid gene rbcL. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 1993 Jan 1:528-80.
Group CP, Hollingsworth PM, Forrest LL, Spouge JL, Hajibabaei M, Ratnasingham S, van der Bank M, Chase MW, Cowan RS, Erickson DL, Fazekas AJ. A DNA barcode for land plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2009 Aug 4;106(31):12794-7.
Experts in United States of America
Jairaj K. Acharya John Belote Wayde Brown Aimée M. Dudley Jon P Mochel Rabaa M. Al-Rousan Chancellor, Renate Karen Lee Abt Lin Li Hui-Hsien Chou Hamed I. Aly Cory K. Adams Mark Ehrensberger Jose Buitrago Gerhard J. Barone Jacquelyne Adams Jon Calabria Shelley Cannady Susan B. Adams Stoica George Daniel E. Acuna Tal Amasay Jason R. Wiles Matthew H Andersen Brian Rothman View More