Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020 European species of Nuphar are amongthe most accessible members of the basal angiosperm grade, but detailed studies using scanning electron microscopy are lacking. We provide such data and discuss them in the evolutionary context. Dorsiventral monopodial
Elena S. El +3 more
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Loss of YABBY2-Like Gene Expression May Underlie the Evolution of the Laminar Style in Canna and Contribute to Floral Morphological Diversity in the Zingiberales. [PDF]
, 2015 The Zingiberales is an order of tropical monocots that exhibits diverse floral morphologies. The evolution of petaloid, laminar stamens, staminodes, and styles contributes to this diversity.
Almeida, Ana MR +3 more
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Impact of air pollution on reproductive biology of plants: Mechanisms and consequences
Plant StressReproductive fitness is paramount to a plant’s ecological and evolutionary processes, establishing species persistence, population dynamics, and ecosystem stability.
Nasrin Banu Khan +6 more
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Dry Climate Filters Gymnosperms but Not Angiosperms through Seed Mass
Diversity, 2023 In the context of climate change in recent years, the fate of woody plant seed has an important impact on forest regeneration. Seed mass is an important reproductive strategy of plants. There are huge differences between gymnosperms (mainly conifers) and
Yang Qi +4 more
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Gene duplicability of core genes is highly consistent across all angiosperms [PDF]
, 2016 Gene duplication is an important mechanism for adding to genomic novelty. Hence, which genes undergo duplication and are preserved following duplication is an important question. It has been observed that gene duplicability, or the ability of genes to be
De Smet, Riet +5 more
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A targeted capture approach to generating reference sequence databases for chloroplast gene regions
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Metabarcoding has improved the way we understand plants within our environment, from their ecology and conservation to invasive species management. The notion of identifying plant taxa within environmental samples relies on the ability to match unknown ...
Nicole R. Foster +7 more
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An insight to strategical responses of particulate pollution in plants: From phenome to genome
Plant StressParticulate matter (PM) is an extremely overlooked air pollutant with drastic effects on the biome, owing to the industrial and agricultural advancements, significantly exacerbating global environmental contamination levels.
Soumya Chatterjee +8 more
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A Flower Bud from the Lower Cretaceous of China
Biology, 2022 Background: Although various angiosperms (including their flowers) have been reported from the Yixian Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of China, which is famous worldwide for its fossils of early angiosperms, no flower bud has hitherto been seen in the Early
Li-Jun Chen, Xin Wang
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Bringing to light the molecular evolution of GUX genes in plants [PDF]
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2020 Hemicellulose and cellulose are essential polysaccharides for plant development and major components of cell wall. They are also an important energy source for the production of ethanol from plant biomass, but their conversion to fermentable sugars is ...
Rafael Henrique Gallinari +4 more
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Size isn’t everything:rates of genome size evolution, not C value, correlate with speciation in angiosperms [PDF]
, 2015 Angiosperms represent one of the key examples of evolutionary success, and their diversity dwarfs other land plants; this success has been linked, in part, to genome size and phenomena such as whole genome duplication events.
Clark, James W +2 more
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