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 ...

Paleontologists may be on the verge of solving one of the great mysteries in the history of life on our planet – the origin of angiosperms, the flowering plants. The importance of angiosperms cannot ...

Sequencing of the water lily’s genome has shed light on the early evolution of angiosperms, flowering plants. Utilizing high-throughput next-generation sequencing technology, an international team of ...

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction to angiosperms; 2. The nature of the angiosperm fossil record; 3. The environmental context of early angiosperm evolution; 4. Stratigraphic ...

Scientists analyzing more than 1,000 fossil remains have found that the Montsechia vidalii, an extinct freshwater plant that lived 130 million years ago, was likely one of the first flowering plants ...

Researchers Mário Miguel Mendes and Pedro Miguel Callapez, from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC), discovered fossilised fruits, approximately 87 million ...

Ruolin Wu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Incompatibility is a common means of controlling breeding behaviour among plants, and has been an important factor in evolution. It acts to prevent self-fertilization, as well as to prevent ...

Plant Systematics and Evolution, Vol. 144, No. 1 (1984), pp. 9-16 (8 pages) Three members of the Gnetatae (Ephedra campylopoda, E. americana, Welwitschia mirabilis) were investigated by TEM and SEM ...