Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ghent University introduced dosage-sensitive genes as evolutionary markers for detecting ancient whole-genome ...

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 ...

Red, white and blue flowers help color the July Fourth patriotic season, including these red and white pentas (and their unexpected guest, a giant leopard moth) and a blue lace-cap hydrangea. Kat ...

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 ...

ARGUABLY the world’s weirdest plant, Welwitschia mirabilis is a tangled mass of shredded, fraying leaves in the Namib desert. For a thousand years, perhaps more, it grows just two long leaves, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...