Secrets In A Seed: Clues Into The Evolution Of The First Flowers
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 22:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers have explored a piece of Darwin's "abominable mystery" -- how flowering plants originated, rapidly diversified, and rose to dominance -- by exploring the microscopic anatomy of seed development in Trithuria, a genus in the plant family Hydatellaceae. This family is thought to be one of the earliest families of angiosperms -- the so-called "basal angiosperms."