Angiosperms (flowering plants) are the most diverse of all major lineages of land plants and the dominant autotrophs in most terrestrial ecosystems. Their evolutionary and ecological appearance is ...

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 161, No. S6, Current Perspectives on Basal Angiosperms (November 2000), pp. S97-S107 (11 pages) Patterns and trends in angiosperm evolution can only be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 71, No. 2, Historical Perspectives of Angiosperm Evolution (1984), pp. 607-630 (24 pages) The functional/phylogenetic relationship between the angiosperm ...

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 ...

Flavodiiron proteins help to protect cyanobacteria from excess light through the dissipation of excess electrons. Introducing moss flavodiiron proteins into Arabidopsis raises its resilience to ...