Evolutionary patterns of salt tolerance in angiosperms
........................................................................................................................ iv Chapter 1: Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 2: Salt tolerance is evolutionarily labile in a diverse set of angiosperm families ............ 25 Chapter 3: The association between salt tolerance and heavy metal hyperaccumulation in angiosperms .................................................................................................................. 65 Chapter 4: Evidence of increased rates of molecular evolution in mitochondrial genes of salt tolerant plants ............................................................................................................. 113 Chapter 5: Domestication and the mitochondrial genome: comparing patterns and rates of molecular evolution in domesticated mammals and birds and their wild relatives ... 141 Chapter 6: Conclusions ................................................................................................................ 183 Appendix I: Predicting species' tolerance to salinity and alkalinity using distribution data and geochemical modelling: a case study using Australian grasses ................................. 191