Flowering plant origins: Dosage-sensitive genes suggest no whole-genome duplications in ancestral angiosperm

Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution ...
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Global team of researchers, including three New York botanical garden scientists, publish ground-breaking study of plant evolution with many potential uses, from plant ...

An international team of researchers, including three New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) scientists, used genetic code from more than 9,500 flowering plant species to create the most detailed ...
SUNY Cortland

13. Plant Evolution IV: Angiospheres

The angiosperms are the most recently derived plant group, originating some 160 million years ago and becoming widespread around 120 million years ago. Angiosperm means “enclosed seed,” referring to ...
New Scientist

Huge genetic database includes over 9000 species of flowering plants

More than 9000 species of plants have had sections of their genomes sequenced as part of the Plant and Fungal Trees of Life (PAFTOL) project led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the UK. This is ...
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90% of flowering plant species rely on animal pollinator on the planet Earth

This study was led by Prof. Shuang-Quan Huang, Director of Institute of Evolution and Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University. Prof. Huang has been dedicated to pollination ...