Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

This book is invaluable for researchers and students working on plant structure, development and systematics, as well as being an important resource for plant ecologists, evolutionary botanists and ...

Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d see a resemblance, but each ...

This diagram shows the evolution of land plants drawn in a way that highlights the development of fruits and seeds as the culminating point. (Image credit: Laurenprue216/Wikipedia , CC BY-SA ) ...

Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, ... Citation: Plant study hints evolution may be predictable (2022, July 18) ...

But the earliest chapter of plant evolution isn’t well documented in the fossil record. So researchers have turned to living organisms, particularly their DNA, for hints as to how land plants ...