Sentences with phrase «asterid dicot»

What do we know about this unique asterid?

We generated a high - quality draft genome of the species Coffea canephora, which displays a conserved chromosomal gene order among asterid angiosperms.

The researchers also discovered that the clade asterid — which potatoes belong to along with tomatoes, coffee, and tobacco — likely split off from rosids (grapes, poplar trees, geraniums, etc.) around 89 million years ago.

Chia seeds or normally referred to as herb Hispanica, may be a plant species happiness to the asterid dicot family.

Named Strychnos electri, after the Greek word for amber (electron), the flowers represent the first - ever fossils of an asterid, which is a clade of flowering plants that not only later gave us coffee, but also sunflowers, peppers, potatoes, mint.

Today, many asterids are being studied for their possible contributions to medicine, including potential new treatments for malaria and infestations by parasitic worms.

They have alternatively been considered to be close relatives of rosids, asterids, or Santalales and are best regarded at this time simply as one of the major clades of core eudicots (e.g., D. Soltis et al. 2000).