Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution have long been a central question in plant evolutionary biology.
For many years, Charles Darwin was haunted by flowers. In 1859, the naturalist published his most famous work, On the Origin of Species, the book that is generally regarded as the foundation of ...
Paleontologists may be on the verge of solving one of the great mysteries in the history of life on our planet – the origin of angiosperms, the flowering plants. The importance of angiosperms cannot ...
Figure 1: Hypothetical tree topologies and summary of orthogroups consistent with ancient gene duplications before the split of monocots and eudicots. In summary, our conservative filtering procedure ...
Incompatibility is a common means of controlling breeding behaviour among plants, and has been an important factor in evolution. It acts to prevent self-fertilization, as well as to prevent ...
Fossils of angiosperms first appear in the fossil record about 140 million years ago. Based on the material in which these fossils are deposited, early angiosperms must have been weedy, fast-growing ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Genome size varies extensively across the flowering plants, which has stimulated speculation regarding the ancestral genome size of these ...
A tiny flower pressed between layers of sandstone for more than 160 million years could be the oldest flower fossil ever found, a new study reports. However, not everyone agrees that the fossil ...
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