Pieter B. Pelser

Dr. Pieter B. Pelser and a leaf of Senecio fistulosus

Pieter B. Pelser (born 12 January 1976) is a lecturer in Plant Systematics and the curator of the herbarium at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. One research interest is the evolutionary history of the tribe Senecioneae, one of the largest tribes in the largest family of flowering plants.[1] He wrote the most recent attempt to define and delimit this tribe and its problematic founding species Senecio.[2] He also studies insects that eat these plants (Longitarsus) which contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids and what makes them choose which plants they eat.[3]

  1. ^ Pieter Pelser. "Pieter Pelser Plant systematist". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
  2. ^ Pelser, Pieter B; Nordenstam, Bertil; Kadereit, Joachim W.; Watson, Linda E. (November 2007). "An ITS phylogeny of tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae) and a new delimitation of Senecio L.". Taxon. 56 (4). International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT): 1077–14E(–1062). doi:10.2307/25065905. JSTOR 25065905.
  3. ^ Schaffner, Urs; Heather Kirk; Peter Pelser; Klaas Vrieling (2004-11-16). "What determines resistance to specialist herbivores? A case study with the plant genus Senecio and Longitarsus flea beetles". Retrieved 2008-06-29.