Like products, plants wait for optimal configuration before market success
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 14:31
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have now amassed the largest evolutionary tree (phylogeny) for plants. They have learned that major groups of plants tinker with their design and performance before rapidly spinning off new species. The finding upends long-held thinking that plants' speciation rates are tied to the first development of a new physical trait or mechanism.