• Background Ovules as developmental precursors of seeds are organs of central importance in angiosperm flowers and can be traced back in evolution to the earliest seed plants. Angiosperm ovules are ...

The evolutionary history and phylogenetic relationships of seed plants have long captivated botanists and palaeobiologists alike. Recent investigations elucidate the mechanisms underlying key ...

We may recognize our world by its flowering plants and trees, but evolutionarily speaking angiosperms are the new kids on the block, coming after epochs when giant fungus ruled the Earth and ...

Newly discovered plant fossils from China, dating back more than 125 million years, may help to establish which seed plants evolved into modern flowering plants. Flowering plants, known as angiosperms ...

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 71, No. 2, Historical Perspectives of Angiosperm Evolution (1984), pp. 577-592 (16 pages) The author's contributions to the problem of angiosperm origin ...

Chinese researchers have found fossils of an ancient plant dating back to about 170 million years ago. The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences recently ...

Gymnosperms (Gymnospermae) are a group of seed-bearing plants with ovules borne on the edge or blade of an open sporophyll, the sporophylls usually arranged in cone-like structures. The other major ...