This large comparative phylogenetic study across angiosperms shows that species that are herbaceous or have small conduits evolved these traits before colonizing environments with freezing ...

Angiosperms (flowering plants) are the most diverse of all major lineages of land plants and the dominant autotrophs in most terrestrial ecosystems. Their evolutionary and ecological appearance is ...

Our analysis supports the idea that the underdeveloped embryo is primitive among seed plants and that there has been a directional change in E:S within both angiosperms and gymnosperms. Our analysis ...

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Flowering plants, or angiosperms as they are also called, make up 90 per cent of the world's plant species. That's some 300,000 to 400,000 species of angiosperms, depending on who you ask.

Then, about 125 million years ago, angiosperms and their flowers sprang forth during the Cretaceous period, as fully formed as Aphrodite. Within 30 million years, angiosperms would dominate the Earth.

The surviving angiosperms got a boost from changes to the soil. The impact pulverized a great deal of rock and spread the mineral-rich dust all over the planet, including iron that enriched the soil.

Late afternoon sunlight streams through the flora at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum. The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic ...

G. Ledyard Stebbins, Adaptive Radiation of Reproductive Characteristics in Angiosperms, II: Seeds and Seedlings, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Vol. 2 (1971), pp. 237-260 ...

The fossil, which was uncovered in the Inner Mongolia region of China, is 1.7 inches (4.2 centimeters) long and 0.8 inches (2 cm) wide. It contains a stem, a leafy branch, a bulbous fruit and a ...

Today, nearly 80 percent of all terrestrial plants are angiosperms. In this way the impact that doomed the dinosaurs gave rise to modern ecosystems. Instead of giant reptiles, ...