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Weeds that reinvented weediness
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Flowering plants are all around us and are phenomenally successful—but how did they get to be so successful and where did they come from? This question bothered Darwin and others and a paper published in the September issue ...
Unexpected amber find rewrites botanical history
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unexpected discovery made by Macquarie University PhD student Sargent Bray about the origin and nature of chemical compounds contained in ancient amber has changed our understanding of ...
Darwin's mystery explained
Jul 14, 2009 |
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The appearance of many species of flowering plants on Earth, and especially their relatively rapid dissemination during the Cretaceous (approximately 100 million years ago) can be attributed to their capacity to transform ...
How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth?
Dec 01, 2009 |
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To Charles Darwin it was an 'abominable mystery' and it is a question which has continued to vex evolutionists to this day: when did flowering plants evolve and how did they come to dominate plant life on earth? Today a study ...
Scientists find unexpected key to flowering plants' diversity
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Jul 28, 2008 |
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What began with an off-the-cuff curiosity eventually led Joe Williams to hang from the limbs of a tree 80 feet above the soil of northeastern Australia.
Newly discovered signaling pathway ensures that plants remember to flower
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some plants blossom even when days are short and gray? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology have found the answer to this question: An endogenous mechanism ...
Rapid burst of flowering plants set stage for other species
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 09, 2009 |
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A new University of Florida study based on DNA analysis from living flowering plants shows that the ancestors of most modern trees diversified extremely rapidly 90 million years ago, ultimately leading to the formation of ...
Study predicts effect of global warming on spring flowers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 17, 2009 |
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An international study involving Monash University mathematician Dr Malcolm Clark has been used to demonstrate the impact of global warming and to predict the effect further warming will have on plant life.
Ferns took to the trees and thrived
Jul 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that had preceded them hardly saw it as a disappointment.
Study provides insight into evolution of first flowers
May 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Charles Darwin described the sudden origin of flowering plants about 130 million years ago as an abominable mystery, one that scientists have yet to solve.
Extreme weather postpones the flowering time of plants
Nov 05, 2008 |
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Extreme weather events have a greater effect on flora than previously presumed. A one-month drought postpones the time of flowering of grassland and heathland plants in Central Europe by an average of 4 days. ...
Biologists discover gene behind 'plant sex mystery'
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Oct 22, 2008 |
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An enigma – unique to flowering plants – has been solved by researchers from the University of Leicester (UK) and POSTECH, South Korea. The discovery is reported in the journal Nature on 23 October 2008. ...
How plants learned to respond to changing environments
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Jul 12, 2007 |
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A team of John Innes centre scientists lead by Professor Nick Harberd have discovered how plants evolved the ability to adapt to changes in climate and environment. Plants adapt their growth, including key steps in their ...
Scientists devise efficient way of learning about complex corn traits
Aug 06, 2009 |
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There's no "silver bullet" gene or gene region that controls so-called complex traits in maize, commonly known as corn.
Records dating back to Thoreau show some sharp shifts in plant flowering near Walden Pond
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists at Harvard University have found that different plant families near Walden Pond in Concord, Mass., have borne the effects ...
