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Evolutionary origins of the endosperm in flowering plants
Célia Baroux1, Charles Spillane, Ueli Grossniklaus
1Institute of Plant Biology, Zurich, Switzerland.
Genome Biology
|September 13, 2002
Abstract:
The evolutionary origin of double fertilization and the resultant endosperm tissue in flowering plants remains a puzzle, despite over a century of research. The recent resurgence of approaches to evolutionary developmental biology combining comparative biology with phylogenetics provides new understanding of endosperm origins.
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