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Bibliography of Citrus and Plant Anatomy Resources

An inventory of the scientific publications of Walter Tennyson Swingle can be found in the container list of the Walter Tennyson Swingle Collection Finding Aid prepared by University of Miami Libraries Special Collections.

Systematics, evolution and genetics of Aurantioideae

Asins, M.J., A.J. Monforte, P.F. Mestre, and E.A. Carbonell. 1999. Citrus and Prunus copia-like retrotransposons. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 99:503-510.
Bayer, R.J., D.J. Mabberley, C. Morton, C.H. Miller, I.K. Sharma, P. Pfeil, S. Rich, R. Hitchcock, and S. Sykes. 2009. A molecular phylogeny of the orange subfamily (Rutaceae:Aurantioideae) using nine cpDNA sequences. American Journal of Botany 96:668-685. <http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0800341>
Boesewinkel, F.D. 1978. Development of ovule and testa in Rutaceae. III - Some representatives of the Aurantioideae. Acta Botanica Neerlandica 27:341-354.
But, P.P.H., A.W.S. Poon, P.C. Shaw, M.P. Simmons, and H. Greger. 2009. Contribution of molecular cladistics to the taxonomy of Rutaceae in China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 47:144-150. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00013.x>
De Araujo, E.F., L.P. De Queiroz, and M.A. Machado. 2003. What is Citrus? Taxonomic implications from a study of cpDNA evolution in the tribe Citreae (Rutaceae subfamily Aurantioideae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 3:55-62.
Grant, M., S. Blackmore, and C. Morton. 2000. Pollen morphology of the subfamily Aurantioideae (Rutaceae). Grana 39:8-20.
Grieve, C.M. 1980. Flavonoid distribution in the Aurantioideae (Rutaceae). Systematic Botany 5:39-53.
Groppo, M., J.R. Pirani, M.L.F. Salatino, S.R. Blanco, J.A. Kallunki. 2008. Phylogeny of Rutaceae based on two noncoding regions from cpDNA. American Journal of Botany 95:985-1005. <http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/ajb.2007313>
Guerra, M., K.G.B. dos Santos, A.E.B.E. Silva, F. Ehrendorfer. 2000. Heterochromatin banding patterns in Rutaceae-Aurantioideae - a case of parallel chromosomal evolution. American Journal of Botany 87:735-747.
Guo, W.W., and X.X. Deng. 1998. Somatic hybrid plantlets regeneration between citrus and its wild relative, Murraya paniculata via protoplast electrofusion. Plant Cell Reports. 18:297-300.
Guo, W.W., and X.X. Deng. 1999. Intertribal hexaploid somatic hybrid plants regeneration from electrofusion between diploids of Citrus sinensis and its sexually incompatible relative, Clausena lansium. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 98:581-585.
Guo, W.W., and X.X. Deng. 1999. Unexpected ploidy variation of the somatic hybrid plants between Citrus sinensis and Clausena lansium. Acta Botanica Sinica 41:439-441.
Hamilton, K.N., E.A. Sarah, and R.A.Drew. 2008. Morphological characterization of seeds of three australian wild citrus species (Rutaceae):Citrus australasica f. Muell., C-inodora F.M. Bailey and C-garrawayi F.M. Bailey. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 55:683-693. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10722-007-9274-x>
Herrero, R., M.J. Asins, E.A. Carbonell, and L. Navarro 1996. Genetic diversity in the orange subfamily Aurantioideae I. Intraspecies and intragenus genetic variability. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 92:599-609.
Herrero, R., M.J. Asins, E.A. Carbonell, and L. Navarro 1996. Genetic diversity in the orange subfamily Aurantioideae II. Genetic relationships among genera and species. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 93:1327-1334.
Jena, S.N., S. Kumar, and N.K. Nari. 2009. Molecular phylogeny in Indian Citrus I. (Rutaceae) inferred through PCR-RFLP and trnL-trnF sequence data of chloroplast DNA. Scientia Horticulturae 119:403-416. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2008.08.030>
Kong, Y.C., P.P.H. But, K.H. Ng, K.F. Cheng, K.L. Chang, K.M. Wong, A.I. Gray, and P.G. Waterman. 1988. The biochemical systematics of Merrillia - in relation to Murraya, the Clauseneae and the Aurantioideae. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 16:47-50.
Lofty, S., F. Luro, F. Carreel, Y. Froelicher, D. Rist, and P. Ollitrault. 2003. Application of cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence method for analysis of cytoplasmic genome among Aurantioideae intergeneric somatic hybrids. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 128:225-230.
Mabberley, D.J. 2004. Citrus (Rutaceae):a review of recent advances in etymology, systematics and medical applications. Blumea 49:481-498.
Manthey, J.A., and K. Grohmann. 1998. Flavonoids of the orange subfamily Aurantioideae. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 439:85-101.
Matsuyama, T., M. Omura, and T. Akihama. 2001. Distribution of Rutaceae-specific repeated sequences isolated from Citrus genomes. Annals of Botany 87:845-849.
Morton, C.M. 2009. Phylogenetic relationships of the Aurantioideae (Rutaceae) based on the nuclear ribosomal DNA its region and three noncoding chloroplast DNA regions, atpB-rbcL spacer, rps16, and trnL-trnF. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 9:52-68. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2008.11.001>
Morton, C.M., M. Grant, and S. Blackmore. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships of the Aurantioideae inferred from chloroplast DNA sequence data. American Journal of Botany 90:1463-1469.
Pang, X.M., C.G. Hu, and X.X. Deng. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships within Citrus and its related genera as inferred from AFLP markers. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 54:429-436.<http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10722-006-0005-5>
Pfeil, B.E., M.D. Crisp. 2008. The age and biogeography of Citrus and the orange subfamily (Rutaceae:Aurantioideae) in Australasia and New Caledonia. American Journal of Botany 95:1621-1631. <http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0800214>
Samuel, R., F. Ehrendorfer, M.W. Chase, and H. Greger. 2001. Phylogenetic analyses of Aurantioideae (Rutaceae) based on non-coding plastid DNA sequences and phytochemical features. Plant Biology 3:77-87.
Scora, R.W., G. Duesch, and A.B. England. 1969. Essential leaf oils in representatives of Aurantioideae (Rutaceae). American Journal of Botany 56:1094.
Stone, B.C., D.T. Jones. 1988. New and noteworthy Rutaceae, Aurantioideae from northern Borneo - Studies in Malesian Rutaceae V. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 140:267-274.
Swingle, W.T. The botany of citrus and its wild relatives of the orange subfamily (family Rutaceae, subfamily Aurantioideae). c1943. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. <http://ibisweb.miami.edu/record=b1280098~S11>
Note: At head of title: "Reprint of Chapter IV from The Citrus Industry, vol.1; History, botany and breeding, ed. by Herbert John Webber ... Also complete bibliography for vol. 1 and Index for chapter IV."
Xie, R.J., Z.Q. Zhou, L. Deng. 2008. Taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships among the genera of the true citrus fruit trees group (aurantioideae, rutaceae) based on AFLP markers. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 46:682-691. <http://dx.doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1002.2008.07135>
Yahata, M., H. Kunitake, K. Yasuda, K. Yamashita, H. Komatsu, H., and R. Matsumoto. 2006. Production of sexual hybrid progenies for clarifying the phylogenic relationship between Citrus and Citropsis species. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 131:764-769.
Yingzhi, L., C. Yunjiang, T. Nengguo, and D. Xiuxin, D. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of mandarin landraces, wild mandarins, and related species in China using nuclear leafy second intron and plastid trnl-trnf sequence. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 132:796-806.

Botanic gardens and related resources

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden <http://www.fairchildgarden.org/>
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden: Montgomery Library and Special Collections <http://www.fairchildgarden.org/aboutfairchild/archives/>
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium <http://www.virtualherbarium.org/>
Searchable database with over 80,000 specimens.
The Kampong - National Tropical Botanical Garden <http://www.ntbg.org/gardens/kampong.php>
Located on Biscayne Bay in Coconut Grove, Florida, the garden is named for the Malay or Javanese word for a village or a cluster of houses. David Fairchild, former owner of the Kampong, brought many of the first plantings from Indo-Malaysia.
The USDA Subtropical Horticultural Research Station (Chapman Field). <http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=10134>

Information on Walter Tennyson Swingle

Anonymous. 1952. Dr. Walter T. Swingle. Death takes another great man of Florida horticulture. The Miami Herald. January 27, 1952.
Anonymous. 1952. Walter T. Swingle, botanist, 81, dead. The New York Times. January 20, 1952.
Bartlett, H. H. 1952. Walter Tennyson Swingle: Botanist and exponent of Chinese civilization. Asa Gray Bulletin 1:107-132. <http://merrick.library.miami.edu/u?/wtswingle,127>
Fairchild, D. G. 1938. The world was my garden: Travels of a plant explorer. Scribner's Sons, New York.
Seifriz, W. 1952. Walter T. Swingle: 1871-1952. Science 118:288-289.
Venning, F. D. 1977. Walter Tennyson Swingle, 1971-1952. The Carrell (Journal of the Friends of the University of Miami Library) 18:1-32. <http://merrick.library.miami.edu/u?/wtswingle,127>

Other resources

The citrus variety collection. University of California Riverside: Riverside, California, n.d. <http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/>
The UCR Citrus Variety Collection is composed of 1800 trees, representing two of each of the 900 different types of citrus and relatives. 640 types are within the genus Citrus, the remaining types are included among 28 other related genera in the Rutaceae sub-family Aurantiodeae. The online resource has images of many of the types contained in the collection.
Cooper, W.C. Odyssey of the orange in China : national history of the citrus fruits in China. Winter Park, FL : W.C. Cooper, c1990. 122 p. <http://ibisweb.miami.edu/record=b1797878~S11>
Dedicated to W.T. Swingle. Research included Swingle manuscripts at the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections.
Cooper, W.C. The U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory : a century of USDA subtropical-horticultural research : a USDA centennial, 1892-1992 [Orlando?] : Florida Citrus Research Foundation, 1995. <http://ibisweb.miami.edu/record=b2185470~S11>
Fairchild, D. Reminiscences of early plant introduction in South Florida. 1938. Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society 51: 11-33. The full text is available online: <http://www.avocadosource.com/Journals/FSHSP/FSHSP_VOL_51_PG_11-33_1938.pdf>
Fairchild, D. The Soledad Garden and Arboretum: The Harvard Biological Institute in Cuba. 1924. Journal of Heredity 15: 451-461
Hodge, W.H. and C.O. Erlanson. Federal plant introduction: A review. 1956. Economic Botany 10(4): 299-334.<http://www.jstor.org/stable/4287909>
Huang, H.T. and P. Yang. The ancient cultured citrus ant. 1987. BioScience 37: 665-671.
Morton, J.V. Fruits of warm climates. c1987. Winterville, North Carolina: Distributed by Creative Resource Systems. <http://ibisweb.miami.edu/record=b1003031~S11>
The full text is also available online: <http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/index.html>
Stevens, P. F. Angiosperm phylogeny website. 2001 onwards. Version 9, June 2008. <http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/>
Continuously updated.
Tillson, A.H. and R. Bamford. The floral anatomy of the Aurantioideae. 1938. American Journal of Botany 25(10): 780-793.
<http://www.jstor.org/stable/2436606>
Venning, F.D. Manual of advanced plant microtechnique. 1954. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown Company. <http://ibisweb.miami.edu/record=b1003031~S11>
Frank D. Venning managed the Swingle Plant Research Laboratory, University of Miami. The book contains procedures for sectioning, staining, mounting and other routines required to prepare botanic anatomical specimens on glass slides.

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