Gardener's Delight Offers Glimpse Into the Evolution of Flowering Plants

Tuesday, September 4, 2012 - 13:31 in Biology & Nature

Double flowers - though beautiful - are mutants. University of Washington biologists have found the class of genes responsible in a plant lineage more ancient than the one previously studied, offering a glimpse even further back into the evolutionary development of flowers.

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