Pieter B. Pelser

Pieter Pelser is a postdoctoral researcher whose primary interest is in studying the evolutionary history of plants with a specialty in the tribe Senecioneae, the largest tribe in the largest family of flowering plantscite web
url = http://pieterpelser.blogspot.com/
title = Pieter Pelser Plant systematist
accessdate = 2008-06-29
author = Pieter Pelser
format = HTML ] and an author of the most recent attempt to define and delimit this tribe and its problematic founding species "Senecio",cite journal
last =Pelser
first =Pieter B
coauthors = Nordenstam, Bertil; Kadereit, Joachim W.; Watson, Linda E.
title = An ITS phylogeny of tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae) and a new delimitation of "Senecio" L.
journal = Taxon
url = http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax/2007/00000056/00000004/art00009
volume =56
issue =4
pages =pp. 1077–14E(-1062)
publisher = International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT)
date =November 2007
accessdate = 2008-06-29 ] as well as research of insect that eat these plants ("Longitarsus") which contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids and what makes them choose which plants they eat.cite web
url = http://esa.confex.com/esa/2004/techprogram/paper_17749.htm
title = What determines resistance to specialist herbivores? A case study with the plant genus "Senecio" and "Longitarsus" flea beetles
accessdate = 2008-06-29
last = Schaffner
first = Urs
coauthors = Heather Kirk, Peter Pelser, and Klaas Vrieling
date = 2004-11-16
format = HTML ]

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*cite web
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title = Author Details
accessdate = 2008-07-01
author = International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI)
authorlink = IPNI
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work = International Plant Names Index
*cite web
url = http://picasaweb.google.com/pelserpb/SenecioneaePhotoGallery
title = Senecioneae photo gallery
accessdate = 2008-06-29
author = Pieter Pelser
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work = Pieter's Public Gallery