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.

Sequencing of the water lily’s genome has shed light on the early evolution of angiosperms, flowering plants. Utilizing high-throughput next-generation sequencing technology, an international team of ...

Taxonomy is the Science of classification which makes the study of wide variety of organisms easy and helps us to understand the interrelationships among different groups of organisms. In Plant ...

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 ...

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THOUGH “the abominable mystery,” as Darwin called the problem of the origin of Flowering Plants, is by no means solved, there has been before the botanical world for some years a theory of their ...

DNA from of over 9,500 living, endangered, and extinct flowering plants from around the world sequenced to produce groundbreaking tree of life DNA from of over 9,500 plants sequenced to produce ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1973 sunflowers appeared in my father's vegetable garden. They seemed to sprout overnight in a few rows he had lent that year to new neighbors from California. Only six years old at ...