B tan College ofArts and SciencesDepartment of Environmental

and Plant Biology

2000.

A thens Ohio 45701-2979

1822 - 2000 178 Years of Teaching Plant Biology OHIO UNIVERSITY

J{eportFrom the Chair

The past year has been a time of dramatic change for the Department. JimBraselton left at the end of June after serving four years as Department Chair

and 30 years at Ohio University. He is now living in Stone Mountain, Georgia, where he is(according to his e-mail signature file) “retired and relaxed.” We wish him well. Jan Salick leftthe Department in June to take a research position at Missouri Botanical Garden, which offersextraordinary opportunities for international fieldwork. Within a week after moving to St.Louis, Jan headed off to China, and other trips are in the offing. Her departure was a loss forthe Department and the University’s international programs. She will be missed. On thepositive side, we are delighted to weléome Sarah Wyatt, our new developmental plant biologist. Her research focuses on stimulus perception and signal transduction in a plant’s responseto gravity.

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This year has also brought major change in the Department’s staff, with the departure of twofamiliar faces from the office and the addition of two new staff members. Judy Dowler, oursecretary for 22 years, resigned in July for health reasons. Brenda Ingraham, the Department’stypist, retired last fall after serving Ohio University for more than 35 years. We are pleased towelcome Chris Needs, our new secretary, and Amy Tillman our Assistant Greenhouse Man-ager.

As if all of this were not enough change for one year, the Department has a new Chair. I comeinto the position with a jumble of feelings: excitement at the opportunity to lead the Depart-ment in a time of change, hopefulness that I can help make a good department even better, and(I mustbe honest) a certain degree of apprehension about taking on such an important responsibility. I am fortunate to have the support of an outstanding staff, who have greatly facilitatedmy transition into the job.

I would like to take this opportunity to say how impressed I am with the current graduatestudents Over the past few years, I have had the pleasure of interacting with many of them aseither students or TAs in my classes and have greatly appreciated their dedication and enthusiasm. In 1999, both the Outstanding Doctoral Student and the Outstanding Masters Student atOhio University were members of this department. For three straight years, the ClippingerFellowship, which may go to any Ohio University doctoral student, has been awarded tomembers of this department. Many of our students received external research grants this year(see pp. 4-5). They deserve our congratulations for their accomplishments, which bring recognition to the department.

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With best wishes to all,Philip D. CantinoProfessor and Chair

In This IssueFaculty & Staff News 6Alumni News 12Milestones 13

BOTANY2000 is a publication of the Department of Environmental &Plant Biology, M.L. Trivett, Editor

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New Hires in the Department

SARAH WYATT

Dr. Wyatt’s research program will focuson plant growth and development withan emphasis on the use of molecular andgenetic tools to study plant responses toenvironmental stimuli. She will be investigating facets of gravitropic responseusing Arthidopsis plants with mutations atthree independent loci. Additionally, shewill be investigating the genes involved inwood formation using Arabidopsis as amodel system to study lignin biosynthesisand wood production.

AMY

Amy Tillman joined the department thissummer as Assistant Greenhouse Manager.She was at Bernheim Arboretum and Re-search Forest this past year and prior to thathad a position at the University of Georgia,Athens similar to her position here. She isconcerned over the endangered status ofmany native plants through loss of habitatand competition from invasive species. Sheis enjoying the diversity of plants offeredby our greenhouse.

HRIS NEEDS

Chris Needs joined our department this fall asSecretary- Receptionist following the resignationof Judy Dowler for health reasons. Chris came tous from the Office of the Dean of Students whereshe worked for two years. She previouslyworked for the Office of Alumni Relations. Sheenjoys her country life and keeps busy withgardening and her family. She looks forward toworking with everyone in our office and learningall about Environmental & Plant Biology.

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AWARDS AND OTHERHONORS

ii!ndergraduate Awards

Distinguished Professor Scholarship: Distinguished Professor Emeritus NORMAN

S. COHN selected CARY S. MILLER ajunior in the Honors Tutorial College toreceive this scholarship.

C. Paul and Beth Stocker Scholarships:Each spring Stocker scholarships areawarded to several undergraduates.This year’s recipients are: BEN AVERY,

LORENA S. BROWN, ERIN B. CLIFFORD, andELISE L. GEORGE of the College of Artsand Sciences.

Lela A. Ewers Science Scholarship: TheCollege of Arts and Sciences Scholar-ship Committee each year selects a full-time student on the Athens campusmajoring in a natural science. AMANDA

L. HABEL is the 2000-2001 recipient.Charles E. Miller Scholarship: The Miller

Scholarship was created in memory ofDr. Charles Miller, professor and long-time Chair of the Department, and isgiven each year to an undergraduate

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plant biology major. This year’s recipient is ANDREW P. GASTIN, College of Artsand Sciences.

Thomas M. Wolfe Scholarship: Six monetary awards to three juniors and threeseniors are made each year from thefund established by Mrs. Edna Wolfe tohonor the memory of her late husband,a 1919 graduate of Ohio University.Two of the awards are designated forplant biology students with strongacademic records who show promisein the areas of conservation and ecology. JILL E. BROWN (senior) and ALYCIA

M. GABRIEL (junior) are this year’sawardees.

0utstanding Graduating Seniors

Each year, every department within OhioUniversity honors an outstanding graduating senior. The following students havebeen recognized for 2000.

EnvironmenialandFlanlBiology, College ofAr/s andScIences: STEPHEN R. RATZEL.

EnvironmenteilandPlanf Biology, HonorsTutorial College.’JENNIFER M. DEAN

Left to right: Ben Avery, Lorena Brown, Cary Miller, Steve Ratzel, Andrew Gaston,Cynthia Riccardi, Liz Martin, Christy Carter, Jennifer Dean and Amanda Habel

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scriptions, $175,000.

HONORS cont.ALLAN M. SII0wALmR:

: NS , Integrati e Plant iolog Pr g am,

G a .Awa s “Structur.. e and uncti of“

Novel.,Modular Arabinogalactan-P otein fromTomato,” , $300,000, with M.J.

DALE CASAMATTA, PhD student, has beenKieliszewski (co-Pi). [continuation]

named. t e D aid CFppn.ger adua e Je niv rsity f el ou e-Coila raKI OW fo 200 -2001 tivc Re’,ca h P ogram Gran , Vis ing

ELIZABETH MARTIN, CYNTHIA RICCCARDI and Research Scholars Award,” $8500.CHRISTY CARTER received monetary

a ards supp rt of thei search fr m The Ohio Board of Rege.nts 1999 Hayes

t ha ‘, Mu funI t” ITK t U (1 Co pttit , a àfl

.v’iic obe enoni s an i3iotechno oy

ROSS MCCAULEY received the Department’s Facilities,” $1,229,000, with KR. DavisGraduate Associate Outstanding Teach- (P.1.), and R. Tabita (co-grantee), S.L.ing Award for 1.999-2000. Goldman (co-grantee)

•r hit ese.

•:• Project Sustain, $75,000, with Barbarar’ RANTS RECEIVED AD Grover (co-PT).

J THE A DS Vis

•:• Ohio University Baker Fund, “A better

HARVEY E. BALLARD:understanding of Bafmchosperiiiitiii/ie?im’iifosuiii (Rhodoph ta) opula on

: hio verst acu ty eve opment hO gy hroug eta anal sis Sant f r trai ing in AFL molecular sequence data,” 10, 00.

markers at Royal Botanic Garden, Kew,England, $1,222. ‘

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), “Car-bon Dioxide Mitigation through Con-

, NS esearch xp iences f r nder— trO ed ()tOS t esis “ $50,()00, hgraduates to continue studies of South J. ayless (co-P ).American violets, S5,565.

•:• Ohio University 1804 Fund, “Reducing+ I Tonors Tutorial College Research Greenhouse Gas Emissions through.. Con-

Assocateship, Ohi niversity, 0 study tro led P tosynthess,” $27, 000, ith Cndeai.i pincushion violets, $3,000. K1aiYIer & . J. ayl ss (co- s).

•:• 1804 Fund, Ohio University Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), En-

integrating Natural Sciences Education hanced Practical Photosynthetic C02

scai h T a mug arid lntci nati nal Mitigation $1 07 million with ith C

xperknce in a ne “Global St des in Kramer & . 1. a less (co- s).

Plant Biology Program”with Morgan Vis(co-PT), $44,955. . . . .The Ohio University Councilfor Research--

Biu C. McCAR ii : S hola ship d Cr ative Activ ty St dentE ac e Aw s

•:• .5. Department of Agriculture orestService, “Analysis of fire temperatures DARRIN RuBIN0, “Experimental evaluation

and fuel loads under thinning fire pre- of nutrient and decay dynamics of woody

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debris in the central Appalachians,”$6,000.

•: ROBERT VERB, “Investigation into utilizationof benthic algae as biological indicators ofacid mine drainage in the Black Forkwatershed, Southeastern Ohio,” $6,000.

Ohio University Houk Research AwardsforGraduate Students

•:• MELISSA HALL (MS-PBIO-Vis), MAlT WEAND

(MSES-McCarthy)

Ohio Biological Survey Awards

•:• Faculty Members--PHIL CANTINO, BRIAN

MCCARTHY, IRWIN UNGAR, MORGAN VI5

•:• Graduate Students--CIIRIsry CARTER, DALE

CASAMATTA, MARl-VAUGHN JOHNSON, ASWINI

PAl, CYNTHIA RICCARDI, DARRIN RUBINO,

CHRISTINE SMALL, MATT WEAND

Ohio University Program to Aid CareerExploration (PACE) Awards

•: HAROLD BLAZIER

•:• PHILIP CANTINO

•:• IRWIN UNGAR

•:• MORGAN Vis

The Ohio EPA Environmental EducationFund (in conjunction with The Ohio Academy ofScience)

•:• LORENA BROWN, $2,500

Phycological Society ofAmerica HoshawTravelAward

•:• DALE CASAMATTA

•:• MFLISSA HALL

NortheastAlgal Symposium = Travel Awards

•:• DALE CASAMATTA

•:• MELISSA HALL

•:• ROBERT VERB

Phi Delta Theta Research Fund

Sigma XiElection to Membership

CHRIsi CARTER

MIHAIL TOMESCU

MELISSA HALL

Grant4nAid for Research

•:• CHRISTY CARTER, “Genetic diversity in anisland salt mash community over time “,

$1,000•:• DALE CASAMATTA, “Assessing the spatial

and temporalgenetic variation ofPhormidIum retzii in a woodland stream”,$890

•:• MIN FENG, “Floral developmental path-ways and molecular phylogenetic relation-ships in the violet family”, $800

•:• BRYAN RAYO (undergraduate), “Molecularbiogeography of the Viola macloskeyicomplex in North America andHispaniola”, $1,000

+ Best Poster: CHRISTINA WILLIAMS, best

poster at Student Display Demonstrationin conjunction with Council for Research,Scholarship and Creative Activity. OhioUniversity, $500

Southern Appalachian Botanical SocietyGraduate Student Research Award

•:• DARRIN RUBINO, “Carbon and nitrogendynamics of decaying woody debris, $300

UMMER SOFTBALL

This summer marked the inaugural season forBiohazard, the co-recreation softball teamsponsored by the Departments of Environmental & Plant Biology and Biological Sciences.The team was comprised of approximately 18graduate students, staff, and instructors fromthe two departments. The summer schedulewas a highly successful campaign in which theteam posted an impressive record of 7-1-1 tofinish runner up in the city league. Participants from Plant Biology who deserve awealth of accolades for their diligence include:SARAH BA5H0RE, WENDY OBROWOLSKI, MICHAELDUNN, JOHN GIAMMARIO, MELISSA HALL, KURTHARTMAN, ERIN HINES, ELIZABETH MARTIN,CYNTHIA RICCARDI, DARRIN RuBIN0, CHRISTINESMALL, BOB VERB, and DARRELL WHITE.•:• KURT HARTMAN, $1,000

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EACULTY AND STAFFj1

NEWSHARVEY BALLARD went to London, Englandlast summer for training in using AFLPmolecular markers on an automated sequencer, and to Paris, France, to studySouth American Violet type specimens andmeet with Jerome Munzinger on NewCaledonian violets. This past winter, heand PhD student Ross MCCAULEY spent 4weeks in Bolivia collecting violets andamaranths. Ross is pursuing revisionaryand molecular systematic studies ofFroelichia and its affinities in theAmaranthaceae. Harvey and GAR ROTHWELL

visited Missouri Botanical Garden in St.Louis, MO to study and sample livingmembers of the jack-in-the-pulpit andduckweed families to establish a databaseto be used, in part, in assessing relation-ships among extant and extinct taxa in thesefamilies. Prior to collecting violets andamaranths in Costa Rica this summer,Harvey and Ross helped Fulbright scholarAUREA CORTE5-PALOMEC initiate her MS fieldstudies in Mexico regarding gene flow andisolation mechanisms between two related,cooccurring violet species. MCB-PhDstudent MIN FENG continues her studies of

floral developmental pathways and molecular phylogenetic relationships in theviolet family. MCB-PhD student CHERYL

MCCREARY is investigating genetic variation

in three unrelated endemic plant species ofthe Olympic Peninsula, WA, while CLAUDIA

SEGOVIA-SALCEDO is conducting a morpho

logical and molecular sytematics study ofthe variation and hybridization inEcuadorean species of the paramo treegenus Folylepis. INNA BIRCHENKO, MSESstudent from the Ukraine and Fellow of theOpen Society Institute, is conducting con-servation, genetic and ecological studies ofthe rare southeastern “monkeyface” orchid,Platanthera infegrilabia.

PHILIP CANTINO reports that MS studentMARl-VAUGHN JOHNSON 15 expected to finish

her research on the flora of Dysart Woodsby the end of fall quarter. ELIZABETH MARTIN

is finishing her MS research involving a

floristic study of a preserve in Meigs Co.,OH. Masters student JEss PEIR50N joined

the lab this fall and has undertaken a systematic study of the mint genus Cdiinsonia.Phil has been settling in as departmentalChair in addition to his work on the newPhyloCode (See article on page 9).

BRIAN MCCARTHY continues his research intothe ecology of hardwood forests, invasivespecies biology, and restoration ecology.He is part of a large multi-investigatorstudy coordinated by the US Forest Serviceat 10 sites across the United States in van-ous ecosystems. He is investigating therole of fire and shelterwood thinning in

mixed oak forests of southern Ohio, Graduate students CYNTHIA RICCARDI (PhD) andJILL BROWN (MS) will be working on theproject. Additionally, Cynthia continuesher study of the ecology of fire in mixedoak forests, concentrating her efforts on

evaluating the fuel loads available for firein this region, and conducting a variety ofother fire experiments involving seedgermination and weevil ecology in the soil.Cynthia continues her flonistic work at Deep

Woods in Hocking County. Jill’s researchinvolves the forest regeneration layer. KURT

HARTMAN transferred to the PhD programthis year with the intention of expanding hisresearch on the ecology and effects of the

invasive Amur honeysuckle in southwest-

em Ohio. He is working at the FernaldEnvironmental Management Project, a

previous Department of Energy uraniumenrichment facility, just outside of Cincin

nati where Brian continues his work with

CAROLYN KEIFFER (1997) on another projectassessing restoration methods for lowland

forest ecosystems. DARRIN RUBINO contin

ues his PhD work on the productivitydynamics of mixed oak forests, He has

been doing a considerable amount of den-

drochronology work this past year and now

is assessing wood decay dynamics. CHRIs-

TINA WILLIAMS (PhD) will complete herstudies of the non-native tree species Fan-lownia lomenfosa this year. Likewise, CHRIs-

TINE SMALL nears completion of her disserta

tion studies on the relationship between

disturbance and understory diversity pat-

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terns. She is attempting to understand theeffects of even-aged forest managementpractices on understory herbs within theextremely diverse topographies of south-eastern Ohio. MATTHEW WEAND (MSES) isinvestigating the vegetation patterns alongforest-field ecotones in the Wayne NationalForest. This will provide some usefulinformation on how past surface mining,now abandoned some 30 years, has impacted the adjacent forest vegetation.ASWINI PAl transferred into the lab this pastwinter. Her interests are in the populationecology of the clonal Sweetfiag (Acorus) andshe has begun a large number Acorusprojects for her dissertation research. Twonew grad students, ELIZABETH BROWNOLDand MATTHEW ALBRECHT, joined the lab thissummer. Brian continues on the editorialboard of Plant Ecology (Vegetatio) and theJournal of the Torrey Botanical Society andclaims to be eagerly anticipating his just-begun stint as Graduate Chair. He is heart-ened by the continued improvement in thegraduate program and quality of studentswe have attracted over the last decade.

GAR ROTHWFLL will be spending next yearon sabbatical at the University of Alberta,Edmonton where he and RUTH STOCKEY (MS74) will concentrate on revising the thirdedition of their textbook “Paleobotany andthe Evolution of Plants” and continuecollaborations on Cretaceous and Tertiaryferns and aquatic flowering plants. Theywill be joined in Edmonton by GENAROHERNANDEZ-CASTILLO (MS 2000) who willbegin his doctoral work under Ruth’s direction. MIKE DUNN continues his doctoralresearch into the Lower Carboniferousvegetation of North America, while doctoralstudent MIHAIL ToMEscu is delving furtherback in time to document the origins ofland plants. 2000 was an active year forpaleobotanical activities and meetings.Graduate students Dunn, HernandezCastillo and Tomescu, and undergraduateresearch student STEPHEN RATZEL (BS 00)presented papers at the MidcontinentPaleobotanical Colloquium (University ofNorth Carolina) in May, and at the BotanicalSociety of America Meetings (Portland OR)

in August. Rothwell, GENE MAPES (Directorof the Environmental Studies Program) andpostdoctoral researcher, LIU ZHAO-YUA,continued their studies of the most primitive fossil conifers and presented papers onconifer evolution at the Sixth InternationalOrganization of Paleobotany Conference inQinhauangdao of Hebei, China this September. Gar was also elected secretary of theInternational Organization of Paleobotanyfor the next five years. Therefore, he will bekept well occupied with both the TOP(http://ibs.uel.ac.uk/palaeo/) duties and hisperennial participation in organizing theMidcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium(http://oak.cats.ohiou.edWrothwelI/MPC2000/index.htm).

JAN SALICK has taken a curator position atthe Missouri Botanical Garden where shewill pursue her interests in the ethnobotanyof South and Central America. RUSSELLCAMPBELL will return to the Department inthe fall to defend his thesis on changes inindigenous casava agriculture among theAmuesha. ERIN HINES is investigatingindigenous landscape management by fireand moisture patch dynamics in an experimental approach in the Ohio Valley. Shehas been working with the Forest Serviceon a long-term prescribed burning projectto determine whether useful plant speciesrichness and composition are affected byburning and environmental moisture gradients. CATHY HAMLIN continues her investigation of Amuesha agricultural practices inaddition to her work with United PlantSavers and Frontier Herbs on Goldenseal.She completed an Organization for TropicalStudies course earlier this year. EIRIKSTIJFHOORN nears completion of his researchinto non-timber forest products of thePeruvian Amazon.

ALLAN SHOWALTER’s lab focuses on thestructure and function of arabinogalactanproteins. These cell surface glycoproteinsare thought to be important in plant development. They also have potential commercial uses as industrial gums and adhesivesas well as uses in human health, given theirability to stimulate our immune system.

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Allan was on sabbatical this past year atThe University of Melbourne in Melbourne,Australia in the laboratory of Dr. TonyBacic. There, Allan worked on purifyingLeAGP4, a novel, modular rabinogalactanprotein in tomato using immunoaffinitychromatography and analyzing the carbohydrate components of this cell surfaceglycoprotein. Meanwhile, back in Athens,postdoctoral fellow HUA Lu with the helpof undergraduate JACINDA LEE producedgenetically engineered tomato plants withreduced levels of LeAGP-1. Thesetransgenic plants provide clear evidence forLeAGP4 having an important function inplant growth and development. Graduatestudent WENXIAN SUN demonstrated thatLeAGP4 is associated with the plasmamembrane in tomato protoplasts and isnow trying to determine how this glycoprotein is anchored to the membrane. Graduate student MING CHEN is following up onprevious work demonstrating thatarabinogalactan-proteins are involved withprogrammed cell death. He has begun todissect the signal transduction pathway bywhich programmed cell death is induced aspart of normal plant development. LIWENWANG is in the process of completing herPhD. dissertation research. She has isolated and characterized two genes fromAtn,zilex, a halophyte, which allow for theproduction of glycinebetaine, a small molecule thought to be involved in conferringsalt tolerance to this and other plant species. Some of her research has also led herto investigate the connection between saltstress and programmed cell death.

ART TRESE has finished the crosses betweenhis strain of a non-nodule-forming beanmutant and other known mutants to deter-mine whether he has found a novel mutation. SARAH BASHORE continues to investigate the genetic basis of the ability of threestrains of Rhizobiurn to overcome the non-nodulation charater of the Trese mutantbeans. She plans to further this investigation for her doctoral research. VIJAYANAND

NADELLA joins the lab this fall from India,and will be working on the molecular

biology of nodule senescence in beans andsoybeans.

IRWIN UNGAR is continuing his research onthe influence of stress on the growth anddistribution of plants and whether thetolerance to stress differs at various stagesof plant development. He is investigatinghow this influences the distribution ofspecies in plant communities. He is cur-rently investigating the effects of bracteoleson the germination and dispersal of Afnilexseeds from salt marsh and salt desert habitats, CHRISTY TUCKER CARTER (PhD) is study-ing the germination and seed bank dynamics of halophytes on the Rittman salt marsh.JOHN GIAMMARIO (MS) is studying the inter-action between salinity and growth regulator substances on seed germination andseedling growth responses of Spergulariamarina. WENDY DOBROWOLSKI (MS) is investigating the allelopathic effects of Lespedezacuneala on the seed germination and growthof several old-field species.

MORGAN VIS and her research group have

had a busy year hosting scientific meetings.DALE CASAMATTA, BOB VERB and MELISSA

HALL were on the organizing committee ofthe “Midwest Ecology & Evolution” meet-ing held at Ohio University in March, InApril, Morgan’s laboratory traveled toRhode Island to co-convene the 39 North-east Algal Symposium. Finally, the labhosted the “Intermitfent Great Lakes AlgalForay” this September to highlight the algaefrom Hocking Hills, In addition, theymanaged to squeeze in a bit of research.BOB VERB (PhD), with the help from the lab,conducted a survey of over 50 streamsvariously impacted by Acid Mine Drainage.DALE CASAMATTA (PhD) is continuing tounravel the evolution of the Cyanobacteria.MELISSA HALL (MS) completed her researchon genetic variation in Batrachospermurnhelminihosurn, Morgan continues to work onthe evolution of freshwater red algae. Morgan was elected to the Executive Hoard ofthe Phycological Society of America asCommunications Director and, among otherduties, will be responsible for the bi-annual

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Newsletter and Website (www.psaalgae.org). Morgan and HARVEY BALLARD havegotten approval for a new program entitled“Global Studies in Plant Biology”. Thecourse includes a field component withBolivia as the first destination this winter.Treks to Hawaii (Summer 2001), Brazil(December 2001) and Northern Brazil/French Guiana (Summer 2002) are planned.

NATURE TRAIL BUILT

Environmental and Plant Biology was oneof the sponsors of a mile-long guidednature trail at The Ridges, constructed bythe fifth/ sixth grade class at River ValleyCommunity School. The trail features treeidentification signs (each researched andprepared by a different child) and a benchoverlooking a waterfall. Nearly all of thework, including building footbridges andsteps, was done by this enthusiastic groupof children. The project, conceived andcarried out by RVCS science teacher JohnSchmieding, took a year and a half to buildand was officially opened in June, 2000.

C TUDENTS COMPLETINGDEGREES

BS: DAVID DICKEY, RYAN DUVAL, AARON

MORFORD, JOHN NAJMULSKI, TRACT NATION,

SHAWN STAPLETON, STEPHEN RATZEL

BS (HTC): JENNIFER DEAN

MS: MELISSA HALL (M.L. VIS); GENARO

HERNANDEX-CASTILLO (G.W.ROTHWELL), BETH

HOBERTY (P.D. CANTINO)

PhD: FORREST MEEKINS (B.C. MCCARTHY)

HYLOCODE

This April, after more than two years ofintense effort, the draft PhyloCode wasmade public on the web:

http://www.ohiouedu/phy1ocode/

The PhyloCode formalizes a system fornaming clades (complete branches on thetree of life) by explicit reference to phylogeny. The theory underlying this system,called phylogenetic nomenclature, wasdeveloped by Kevin de Queiroz(Smithsonian Institution) and JacquesGauthier (Yale) in the early 1990s. Kevin deQueiroz and PHIL CANTINO are the authorsof the PhyloCode, but its preparation wasoverseen by an international advisorygroup of 24 biologists. When thePhyloCode goes into operation a few yearsfrom now, it will make it far easier to nameclades. The current system of biologicalnomenclature (often called Linnaean no-menclature although many key aspects of itdeveloped after Linnaeus’s time) is basedon pre-Darwinian principles and is notdesigned to name clades. Although phylogenetic nomenclature will operate in parallel with the current system, it is viewed bysome as a threat to tradition and is thereforecontroversial. It has received coverage onNPR’s All Things Considered(August, 1999)and has been the subject of feature articlesin Science News (October, 1999) andbioScience (August, 2000). Completion ofthe PhyloCode this year was made possibleby Kevin de Queiroz’s appointment asRufus Putnam Visiting Professor duringwinter quarter, 2000. While at Ohio University, he taught a graduate seminar in ourdepartment that focused on species con-cepts as well as the Animal Systematicscourse in the Department of BiologicalSciences. Kevin is one of the foremostthinkers on the theory and philosophy ofsystematic biology and is currently President of the Society of Systematic Biologists.

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IFTS TO THEDEPARTMENT

In the past year, monetary gifts to the department havebeen used for improvements at the Botany Gardenand Greenhouse and to support instruction insummer workshops for teachers. In addition, gifts tothe Department provided plaques to thejunior andsenior students with the top botanical projects at theDistrict Science Fair. Contributions may be made tothe Department in general or may be directed towarda specific purpose, for example, through one of thefollowing accounts:

÷— The Professor Arthur H. Buckle BotanyScholarship for women.Charles E. Miller Scholarship for under-graduate and graduate students.

— Lee and Irene Roach Graduate Fund forgraduate student research in cellular andmolecular biology.

— Monroe T. Vermilion Scholarship forundergraduates.

<— Plant Biology Faculty Memorial Scholar-ship for graduate students

BARTELLIS, Lois JEANNF

BONECUFTER, MARGARET SCAGGS

& DUSTIN JOHN

CALABRO, NIchoLAs C.CAVENDER, JAMES C.DOKTOR, THOMAS A.DRAKE, KENNETH A,FODERARO, MARGARET ANGELA

FRASCH, ROBLRT G. & BONNIE

HANEKE, HORSF BERNARD

HOPSIETTER, SALLY P.

JONES, JOYCE

KURTZMAN, DR. CLETUS P.LYON, JEFFERY P.MAENPA, FRANCIS C.MECKLENBORG, TODD S.MIETTY, WAYNE A.MITCHELL, JOHN P. & LILLIAN

MORTON, RODNEY D.PAPSIDERO, LAWRENCE D.POST, BOYD W.PREISNER, THADDEUS R.RoSS, MICHAEL D.

RUTHERFORD, PHILIP C. & LESA

SMITH, IVAN K. & LYNN

SFEINBACK, JOHN T.STOUT, NORMAN B.SZABO, BERTALAN, L.THOMPSON, ELLA M.UNGAR, IRWIN & ANNA

VIERHELLER, THOMAS L.WARNE, THOMAS R.WESIVACO FOUNDATION/

HERMANN, GARY W

VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT•:• Michael Donoghue, Harvard University

•:• Michael Krings, University ofKansas

•:• Coralie Lashbrook, University ofFlorida

•:• Sherwin Carlquist, Santa Barbara Bot. Garden

•:• Alfred Ziegler, University ofChicago

•:• Brian J. Armitage, Ohio Biological Survey

WF IHANK THE POILOWINGALUMNIAND FR/ENDS WHO HA VE MADE CONTRJBUTIONS TO THE DJI1’ARTMFNL

DURING THE PAST YEAR. l44 RESPECT THE WISHES OF DONORS WHO WISHANONYMITYAND WHO HA YE RE-

QUESTED WE NOTLIST THEIR NAMES. IN EITHER CASE, WHEN YOUMAKE A GIFT TO PBIO, ‘-ou WILl RECEIVI

ANACKNOWIEDGEMENJ FROM THE IMi1 DR. P. D. ANTINO. iF YOU DO NOl RIIIVF A PERSONAL

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, OR IF YOUR NAME SHOULD, BUT P015 NOTAPPEAR ON THIS LISI, PLLASE AH IT TO OUR

A TJTNIION SO WE CAN CORRECT THE OMISSiON. ‘1/ HA VI FOUND THAT OASIONALLYDONATIONS INTENDED

fOR FLANTBIOLOGYARE INCORRECTI Y DEPOSiTED INACCOUNTS OF OTHIR DEPARTMENTS.

1zecks should be made out Ic The Ohio University Foundation emil desinafedfor the Depart-ment ofEnvu,irnrnental & Plant Biology in the menie section of/he check or on a sepate note andsent to.’

The Ohio University FoundationP.O. Box 869

Athens OH 45701

+ Rob Alba, The Colorado College •:• DanielE. Wujek, CentralMichigan University

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ECENT PUBLICATIONS

Ballard, H. K, Jr. 2000. Violaceae. In: Rhoads,A. F. and T. A. Block (eds.), The Plants ofPennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. pp. 700-710

Jørgensen, P. M. and H. E. Ballard. 1999.Violaceae. In: Jørgensen, P. M. and S. LeOn-Yánez (eds.), Catalogue of the VascularPlants of Ecuador, Monographs in System-atic Botany vol. 75. Missouri BotanicalGarden, St. Louis, MO. pp. 943-946, 956

Cantino, P. D., H. N. Bryant, K. de Queiroz,M. J. Donoghue, T. Eriksson, D. M. Hillis,and M. S. Y. Lee. 1999. Species names inphylogenetic nomenclature. SystematicBiology 48: 790-807.

Cantino, P. D. 2000. Phylogenetic nomenclature: addressing some concerns. Taxon 49:85-93.

Cantino, P. D. 1999. Review of Plant System-atics. A Phylogenetic Approach, by W. S.Judd et al. Systematic Biology 48: 826-828.

Cantino, P. D. and K. de Queiroz. 2000. ThePhyloCode [a draft set of rules governingphylogenetic nomenclaturej. http:/ /www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/

Cavender, J.C. and E.M. Vadell. 1999. Thegenus Aczfosfeliuin. Mycologia 92: 992-1008.

Swanson, A,R., E.M. Vadell and J.C.Cavender. 2000. Global distribution offorest soil dictyostelids. 26: 133-148.

Greer, G.K. and B.C. McCarthy. 1999. Game-tophytic plasticity among four species offerns with contrasting ecological distributions. International Journal of Plant Sciences 160(5): 879-886.

Robison, S.A. and B.C. McCarthy. 1999.Potential factors affecting the estimation oflight availability using hemispherical photography in oak forest understories. Journalof the Torrey Botanical Society 126(4): 344-349.

Meekins, J.F. and B.C. McCarthy. 2000. Re-sponses of the biennial forest herb, A/liar/apet/olafa, to population density, nutrientaddition, and light availablity. Journal ofEcology 88(3): 447-463.

Rothwell, Gar W. and Charles W. Good. 2000.Reconstruction of the Pennsylvanian agefilicalean fern BotrzopEeris frideiziafa.Interenational Journal of Plant Sciences161: 495-507.

Rothwell, Gar W., Lea Grauvogel-Stamm andGene Mapes. 2000. An herbaceous fossilconifer: Gymnospermous ruderals in theevolution of Mesozoic vegetation.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,Palaeoecology 156:139-145.

Yao, Zhao-Qi, Lu-Jun Liu, Gene Mapes andGar W. Rothwell. 2000, Leaf Morphologyand Cuticular Anatomy of Splzenophzllumin the Gzanfopferis flora from SouthChina. Review of Palaeobaotany andPalynology 110: 67-92.

Yao, Zhao-Qi, Lu-Jun Liu, Gar W. Rothwelland Gene Mapes. 2000. Szecladia gel?. nov.,

an Upper Permian conifer withmultiveined leaves from South China.Journal of Paleontology 74: 524-521.

Lantz, T.C,, G.W. Rothwell and R.A. Stockey.1999. Conan/up/ens schuclmzanii gen. ci sp.nov., and the role of fossils in resolving thephylogeny of Cyatheaceae. Journal ofPlant Research 112: 361-381.

Rothwell, G.W. 1999. Gnetophytes. Encyclopedia of Paleontology, P. 94-95, FitzroyDearborn Publishers, Chicago.

1 Rothwell, Gar W. 1999. Fossils and ferns inthe resolution of land plant phylogeny.Botanical Review 65:188-218.

Stockey, Ruth A., Harufumi Nishida and Garw. Rothwell. 1999. Permineralized fernsfrom the middle Eocene Princeton Chert.I. Makolopieris princefozzensis gel?. ci Sp.

nov. (Athyriaceae). International Journalof Plant Sciences I 60:1047-1055.

Gao, M. and A. M. Showalter. 2000.Immunolocalization of LeAGP-1, a modular arabinogalactan-protein, reveals its

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developmentally regulated expression intomato (IZycopersicon esculentum). Planta210, 865-874.

Showalter, A.M., M. Gao, M. J. Kieliszewski,and D. T. A. Lamport. 2000. Character-ization and localization of a novel tomatoarabinogalactan-protein (LeAGP-1) andthe involvement of AGPs in programmedcell death. In Proceedings of the TwentiethSymposium in Plant Physiology, (E.Nothnagel, A. Bacic, and A. E. Clarke,eds.), Plenum Press: New York.

Egan, T.P. and l.A. Ungar. 1999. The effectsof temperature and seasonal change onthe germination of two salt marsh speciesLAfrikx prosirata and Salicornia europaea,along a salinity gradient. InternationalJournal of Plant Sciences 160: 861-867.

Khan, M.A., l.A. Ungar, and A. M. Showalter,1999. Effects of salinity on growth, ioncontent and osmotic relations inHalopyrum mucrornitum (L.) Stapf. Journalof Plant Nutrition 22:191-204.

Khan, M.A., l.A. Ungar and A.M. Showalter.2000. The effect of salinity on the growth,water status, and ion content of a leafsucculent perennial halophyte, SuaethzfrufIcosa (L.) Forssk. Journal of Arid Environments 45: 73-84.

Khan, M.A., l.A. Ungar and A.M. Showalter.2000. Effects of salinity on growth, waterRelations and ion accumulation of thesubtropical perennial halophyte, Ain,plexgr’fl1Wiii var. slocksuI. Annals of Botany 85:225-232.

Khan, M.A. and l.A. Ungar. 2000. Alleviationof innate and salinity induced dormancyin Airi,’plex gr’ffithii Moq. var. stocksilBoiss. Seed Science and Technology 28:29-37.

Verb, R.G. & Vis, M.L. 2000. Comparison ofbenthic diatom communities from streamsdraining abandon mines, reclaimed minesand non-impacted sites. Journal oft/icNor//i American BenthologIcal Society, 19:274-288.

Entwisle, T.J., Vis, M.L. & Foard, H.J. 2000.Systematics and biogeography of

Psicsi,vhon (Psilosiphonaceae,Rhodophyta) in Australia and NewZealand. Cryptogamie Algologie 21: 133-148.

Hambrook, J.A., Armitage, B.J. & Vis, M.L.1999. Algal and macroinvertebrate assemblages of selected Ohio springs. OhioBiological Survey Notes 2: 1-24.

Edlund, M.B., Soninkhishig N., Vis, M.L. 1999.Distribution, taxonomy, and conservationvalue of Batrachospermum(Batrachospermaceae, Rhodophyta) inMongolia. Proceedings of the MongolianAcademy of Sciences 3: 47-54.

Rintoul, T., Sheath, R.G. & Vis M.L. 1999.Systematics and biogeography of theCompsopogonales (Rhodophyta) withemphasis on freshwater genera in NorthAmerica. Phycologia 38: 517-527.

Edlund, M.B., Soninkhishig N., Vis, M.L. 1999.Distribution, taxonomy, and conservationvalue of Batrachospermurn(Batrachospermaceae, Rhodophyta) inMongolia. Proceedings of the MongolianAcademy of Sciences 3: 47-54.

Rintoul, T., Sheath, R.G. & Vis M.L. 1999.Systematics and biogeography of theCompsopogonales (Rhodophyta) withemphasis on freshwater genera in NorthAmerica. Phycologia 38: 517-527.

A LUMNI NEWS

THOMAS ALFORD (BS 1961) retired this yearfrom Barberton High School after 37 yearsof teaching botany and biology. He recallshaving Drs. Wistendahl and Cohn as pro-fessors.

TODD BEAN (BS 1999) was elected mayor ofAlbany OH this past fall. He previouslywas a Councilman. He also runs his ownfurniture building business.

TOM BRENNAN (BS 1988, MS 1991) is living inVirginia and working for the EPA in Wash-ington, DC in the office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, developing computermodels to estimate exposure from chemicalreleases. He and his wife have a daughterand a son.

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JENNIFER DEAN (BS-HTC 2000) recently returned from a Nature Conservancy intern-ship at Cascade Heads, a coastal grassland,in Oregon where she was involved in con-trolled burns to reinvigorate the naturalgrasses and forbes and to control invasivespecies.

DONGGIUN KIM (PhD 1999) has accepted aposition at Missouri-Columbia.

CHRIS KLINE (MS 1993) has been electedpresident of the Environmental EducationAssociation of Indiana.

KONRAD KMETZ (BS 1969) is completing 24years in the Agricutlture Products Divisionof DuPont focusing on crop protectants and,more recently, biotechnology. He has beeninvolved in the development of geneticallyengineered corn, soybeans, wheat and rice,specializing most recently on hybrid ricebred for Asian countries.

CHRISTY KUCZAK (BS-HTC 1999) has beenawarded a three-year NSF fellowship tosupport her doctoral studies at CornellUniversity.

DAVID SPOONER (MS 1976), Department ofHorticulture, University of Wisconsin,Madison continues stalking the wild potatoin the far reaches of Latin America. He ispreparing separate taxonomic monographsof wild potatoes and tomatoes from theU.S., Mexico and Central America.

BEN TORKE has begun his doctoral work atWashington University, St. Louis, investigating speciation and phylogeny in thelarge, neotropical genus Swarizia. He previously held a curatorial position at the NewYork Botanical Garden.

JUDY VINCENT (MS 96) reports that she ismoving with her family to Continental, OH.Her new e-mail address is:igvincent@hotmail.com.

GRETCHEN WALTERS (BS 1996) currently isworking on an MS thesis at Arizona StateUniversity. In addition, she has an intern-ship through the Missouri Botanical Gardeninvolving bioprospecting in West Africa.

JOE WINSTEAD (BS 1960, MS 1962, PhD 1968)is Chair of the Department of Biologicaland Environmental Sciences at MoreheadState University, Morehead KY.

ZEQI ZHOU (PhD 1991) is the holder of twoU.S. patents, one for differentiation ofprostate cancer from BPH by assaying PSAACT and the other for determination ofCPSA.

MMarriages

JEFF SCHMELA (MS 1998) was married December 18, 1999 in Michigan.

CHRISTINA WILLIAMS and Dirk E. Long-brakewere married June 17, 2000 in Athens.

CHRISTINE SMALL and DARRELL WHITE weremarried May 27, 2000 in Virginia.

Births

ZHAOHUA LIu, PostDoctoral Fellow with CarRothwell and Gene Mapes, and his wifehad a baby girl Friday, September 22. LilyLiu weighed 8.5 pounds at birth.

Deaths

ARTHUR F. BEYER (BS 1943) passed away Dec.21, 1999 in Wichita Falls, TX. He retired in1993 after 37 years on the faculty at Mid-western State University. During his tenurehe was elected University Faculty Memberof the Year six times. He served as depart-mental Chair from 1960 to 1981.

JUDY KERTESZ GRAY (BS 1960) died on Oct. 9,1999. She was a skilled weaver and demon-strated her skills at Cobblestone farm whereshe worked. She was a docent for Cobble-stone Farms and for the University ofMichigan Matthai Botanical Gardens,. Sheis survied by her husband, Dr. Robert Gray,(MS 1962), Senior Associate Dean, Univ.Michigan School of Public Health.

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