1790-1849

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 1790. Metamorphosis of Plants (originally published as Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären). background

1850-1899

William Bateson. 1894. Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to discontinuity in the origin of species. London: Macmillan & Co. 598p. book in facsimile pdf format | background

1900-1949

Edmund W. Sinnott and Samuel Kaiser. 1934. Two types of genetic control over the development of shape. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 61(1): 1-7. article at JSTOR | background

Walter Zimmerman. 1938. Die Telometheorie. Biologe 7: 385-391. background

1950-1994

Agnes Arber. 1950. The natural philosophy of plant form. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 247pp. background

J.G. Vaughn. 1955. The morphology and growth of the vegetative and reproductive apices of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh, Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medic. and Anagallis arvensis. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society of London 55: 279-301. background

Edmund W. Sinnott. 1963. The Problem of Organic Form. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 212 pages. background

François Jacob. 1977. Evolution and tinkering. Science 196(4295): 1161-1166. article at JSTOR | background

Stephen Jay Gould. 1977. Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Imprint Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 520p. background | volume at Harvard University Press

Edward O. Guerrant, Jr. 1982. Neotenic evolution of Delphinium nudicaule (Ranunculaceae): a hummingbird-pollinated larkspur. Evolution 36(4): 699-712. article at JSTOR | background

Man M. Johri and Edward H. Coe, Jr. 1983. Clonal analysis of corn plant development. I. The development of tassel and ear shoot. Developmental Biology 97: 154-172. abstract at MEDLINE | background

Taylor A. Steeves and Ian M. Sussex. 1989. Patterns in Plant Development. Cambridge University Press. volume at Cambridge University Press | background

Hans Sommer, J.P. Beltran, Peter Huijser, H. Pape, Wolf-Ekkehard Lonnig, Heinz Saedler, and Zsuzsanna Schwarz-Sommer. 1990. Deficiens, a homeotic gene involved in the control of flower morphogenesis in Antirrhinum majus: the protein shows homology to transcriptions factors. The EMBO Journal 9: 605-613. abstract on PubMed | background

1995-present

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