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Flowering plant origins: Dosage-sensitive genes suggest no whole-genome duplications in ancestral angiosperm

Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution have long been a central question in plant evolutionary biology.
Science Daily

How ancient flowering plants grew: Early angiosperms were weedy, fast-growing

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 ...
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A tour of the flowering plants : based on the classification system of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group / texts and photographs by Priscilla Spears

x, 308 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. + CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) ...
The Conversation

Fossils suggest an aquatic plant that bloomed underwater was among first flowering plants

David Dilcher 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 ...
Scientific American

Ancient Aquatic Flora Was among the First Flowering Plants

Pyrenees fossils suggest the Montsechia lived up to 130 million years ago and is the earliest known example of a fully submerged aquatic flowering plant Editor's note: The following essay is reprinted ...
The Conversation

New prehistoric plant discovery highlights the unexpected diversity of non-flowering plants

Az Klymiuk (University of Manitoba) receives/has received funding from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC-CRSNG), the TAWANI Foundation (through the Field Museum of ...