Sentences with phrase «seed plant evolution»

John Dickie, head of botanical information at the Millennium Seed Bank, added: «For a number of years we have been keen to know just how much phylogenetic diversity, the total outcome of millions of years of seed plant evolution, we have in the vault.
«Ginkgo biloba, primarily known today as a dietary supplement to enhance memory, also plays an important role in the understanding of seed plant evolution,» says Simon Malcomber, program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.

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The genetic sequence of the Norway spruce (shown) could shed light on the evolution of the seed - bearing plants called gymnosperms.
«Parasitic plants rely on unusual method to spread their seeds: Convergent evolution of internal seed dispersal by camel crickets.»
Seed predation is an important ecological process that can affect the reproductive success of individual plants, the dynamics of plant populations, and the evolution of defensive dispersal mechanisms and plant morphological traits.
Indeed, Williams and co-authors expanded the Brewbaker dataset by including 2,511 species for which they modeled trait evolution (tri - vs bicellular pollen) using a modern (2013) seed plant phylogeny and two different sets of analyses.
The find helps scientists better understand the evolution and diversity of ancient seed plants.
It's an icon of evolution, but the waterwheel plant is facing extinction — and even its preservation in a seed bank looks doubtful.
Having emerged late during evolution, seeds have transformed many plants into miniature travelers, contributing greatly to their colonization of terrestrial habitats.
(PhysOrg.com)-- Researchers from the University of Florida and six other institutions have unlocked some of the key foundations for the evolution of seed and flowering plants.
In the past we have used diverse taxa including mosses, lycophytes, ferns and seed plants to investigate how developmental mechanisms were modified during land plant evolution.
The Li lab uses genomic tools to investigate the evolution and biology of seed - free plants: ferns, fern allies, and bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts).
«Genes required for the production of small RNA in seeds were at the very top of the list of genes responsible for the evolution of flowering plants from cone - bearing plants.
New commissions include a major multi-disciplinary project on St Petersburg's Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry — one of the world's largest seed banks — and the future of food security and evolution by Callum Cooper.
You just need to believe that evolution is a way for god to create species just like planting a seed is a way for human to create a tree with its many branches.
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