- Randall James Bayer
Randall James Bayer (born
13 July ,1955 ) is an American systematicbotanist , published mostly as "R.J. Bayer", who was born in Buffalo,New York , U.S.A.He spent childhood and attended public school in
East Aurora, New York . He completed hisB.Sc. with major inPlant Breeding and minor inHorticulture in 1978 fromCornell University inIthaca ,New York ; anM.Sc. inSystematic Botany in 1980 from theOhio State University ,Columbus, Ohio ; and aPh.D. inSystematic Botany in 1984 from the Ohio State University with a dissertation on "Evolutionary Investigations in Antennaria". His interest in the genus "Antennaria" was inspired through noted evolutionary botanist,George Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000), who was a visiting professor at the Ohio State University in 1978-1979.His early academic career was as an Assistant Professor of Biology and Curator of the Benedict Herbarium (WOCB) at
University of Windsor , Windsor,Ontario ,Canada (1984-1987). In 1987 he moved toEdmonton ,Alberta , Canada to take up the post of Assistant Professor of Botany and Curator of the Vascular Plant Herbarium (ALTA) at theUniversity of Alberta (1987-1990). He was promoted to Associate Professor of Botany in 1990 and Professor of Botany in 1995. During his sabbatical year in 1994, he was Visiting Adjunct Scientist atWashington State University , Department of Botany. While at the University of Alberta he developed his research program on evolutionary studies in "Antennaria " (Asteraceae ). He has become a well-known authority on the genus "Antennaria" and its associatedpolyploidy andapomixis . He has contributed taxonomic revisions of this genus to a number of North American floras.In 1997, he emigrated to
Canberra ,Australia , where he became a Senior Principal Research Scientist with theCSIRO , Division of Plant Industry working at theAustralian National Herbarium (CANB). He also became an Adjunct Reader in Botany at theAustralian National University , Division of Botany and Zoology. He specializes insystematics andevolution of the Asteraceae (Gnaphalieae ) of Australia and the world. Bayer also has expertise in taxonomy and molecularphylogeny of "Citrus " (Rutaceae )and its close relatives, which have great diversity inSE Asia . R.J. Bayer has published about 100 papers and book chapters in internationally recognized publications.He has collected plants around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, United States of America, Canada, South America, southern Africa, Madagascar and western Europe. His collections are primarily deposited in various herbaria including ALTA and CANB with duplicates of many collections in CAN, CHR, DAO, F, MO, S, E, X, NBG, NSW, OS, P, PERTH, PRE, RM, TAN, US, and WOCB.
Publications
Book chapters
*Bayer, R.J. In press. "Antennaria". In: Flora of North America North of Mexico. Edited by the Flora North America Editorial Committee. New York: Oxford University Press.
* Bayer, R. J., I. Breitwieser, J. Ward, and C. F. Puttock. In press. Gnaphalieae. In: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Editor, K. Kubitzki. New York : Springer-Verlag.
* Funk, V. A., R. J. Bayer, S. Keeley, R. Chan, L. Watson, B. Gemeinholzer, E. Schilling, J. L. Panero, B. G. Baldwin, N. Garcia-Jacas, A. Susanna and R. K. Jansen. 2005. Everywhere, but Antarctica: Using a supertree to understand the diversity and distribution of the Compositae. In: Friis, I. & Balslev, H. (eds.) Proceedings of a Symposium on Plant Diversity and Complexity Patterns - Local, Regional and Global Dimensions. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen. Biol. Skr. 55: 343-374. ISBN 87-7304-304-4.
* Ainouche, A-K, R. J. Bayer, P. Cubas, and M. T. Misset. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships within tribe Genisteae (Papilionaceae) with special reference to the genus Ulex. In B. Klitgaard and A. Bruneau (eds.), Advances in Legume Systematics. Part 10, Higher Level Systematics. pp. 239-252. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
* Miller, J. M. and R.J. Bayer. 2001. Molecular phylogenetics of "Acacia" (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) based on the chloroplast trnK/matK and nuclear Histone H3-D DNA sequences. In Herendeen PS, Bruneau A, eds. Advances in legume systematics: part 9. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2000, publ. 2001, pp.181-200.
* Mant, J. G., R.J. Bayer, J. W. H. Trueman, and M. D. Crisp. 2000. A phylogeny of Triodieae (Poaceae: Chloridoideae) based on the ITS region of nrDNA: testing conflict between anatomical and inflorescence characters. In Jacobs S. W. L., Everett J. eds Grasses: Systematics and Evolution. Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO, pp. 213-217.
* Bayer, R.J. 1999. New perspectives into the evolution of polyploid complexes. In: Plant evolution in man-made habitats. Proceedings of the VIIth international symposium of the international organization of plant biosystematists (L.W.D. van Raamsdonk and J. C. M. den Nijs, eds.). Hugo de Vries Laboratory, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pgs. 359-373.
* Stebbins, G.L. and R.J. Bayer. 1993. "Antennaria". In: The Jepson Manual of Higher Plants of California, J. Hickman Ed., University of California Press, pgs. 196-198.References
*Australian National Botanic Garden [http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/bayer-randall.html Bayer, Randall James (1955 - )]
External links
* [http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/publications/bayer-publications/index.html List of Bayer's publications] at
Australian National Botanic Gardens
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