Species within the Ranunculales bear flowers of formidable variation; for example, one can find novel floral organs and loss of floral organs, zygomorphic and radially symmetric flowers, and variation in floral organ...
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Zygomorphy evolved from disymmetry in Fumarioideae
Floral bilateral symmetry (zygomorphy) has evolved at least 70 times during the history of angiosperms, whilst radial symmetry (actinomorphy) is the ancestral and most common state for angiosperms as a whole. Sauquet et...
Virus-induced gene silencing and evo-devo studies in Cysticapnos
Gene silencing studies are increasingly being used to unravel the role of developmental genes. Hidalgo et al. report the establishment of virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) in Cysticapnos vesicaria, a member of the...
Seed persistence and germination traits
Seed persistence in the soil under field conditions is issue for the maintenance of local plant populations and the restoration of plant communities. Saatkamp et al. compare seed survival in a burial experiment with...
