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Charles A. Knight
 
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Biological Sciences Department
California Polytechnic State University

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Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Angela T. Moles, Ilia J. Leitch, Michael D. Bennett, John B. Dickie and Charles A. Knight. 2007. Correlated evolution of genome size and seed mass. New Phytologist 173(2): 422–437 abstract | full text | article in PDF format

Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Ilia J. Leitch, and Charles A. Knight. 2007. Genome size evolution in relation to leaf strategy and metabolic rates revisited. Annals of Botany 99:495-505 abstract | full text | article in PDF format

Charles A. Knight, Heiko Vogel, Juergen Kroymann, Alice Shumate, Hanneke Witsenboer and Thomas Mitchell-Olds. 2006. Expression profiling and local adaptation of Boechera holboellii populations for water use efficiency across a naturally occurring water stress gradient. Molecular Ecology 15:1229-1237 abstract | full text | article in PDF format

 

Charles A. Knight, Nicole A. Molinari, and Dimitri A. Petrov. 2005. The large genome constraint hypothesis: evolution, ecology, and phenotype. Annals of Botany 95(1): 177-190. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Charles A. Knight, and David D. Ackerly. 2003. Evolution and plasticity of photosynthetic thermal tolerance, specific leaf area and leaf size: congeneric species from desert and coastal environments. New Phytologist 160(2): 337-347. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Charles A. Knight, and David D. Ackerly. 2003. Small heat shock protein responses of a closely related pair of desert and coastal Encelia. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164(1): 53-60. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Charles A. Knight, and David D. Ackerly. 2002. Variation in nuclear DNA content across environmental gradients: a quantile regression analysis. Ecology Letters 5(1): 66-76. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Charles A. Knight, and David D. Ackerly. 2002. An ecological and evolutionary analysis of photosynthetic thermotolerance using the temperature-dependent increase in fluorescence. Oecologia 130(4): 505-514. abstract (full text and pdf available from SpringerLink at this link)

David D. Ackerly, Charles A. Knight, Stuart B. Weiss, Kasey Barton, and Kathleen P. Starmer. 2002. Leaf size, specific leaf area and microhabitat distribution of chaparral woody plants: contrasting patterns in species level and community level analyses. Oecologia 130(3): 449-457. abstract (full text and pdf available from SpringerLink at this link)

Charles A. Knight, and David D. Ackerly. 2001. Correlated evolution of chloroplast heat shock protein expression in closely related plant species. American Journal of Botany 88(3): 411-418. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

 

 

 

 

 

 

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