DNA sequencing unlocks evolutionary origins, relationships among flowering plants
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 17:21
in Biology & Nature
The origins of flowering plants from peas to oak trees are now in clearer focus. A new study unravels 100 million years of evolution through an extensive analysis of plant genomes. It targets one of the major moments in plant evolution, when the ancestors of most of the world's flowering plants split into two major groups.