A collaborative research group has succeeded in identifying an important transcription factor, GCAM1, which allows liverwort plants to asexually reproduce through creating clonal progenies (vegetative ...

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 169, No. 1, Special Issue Major Evolutionary Transitions in Flowering Plant Reproduction Edited by Spencer C. H. Barrett (January 2008), pp. 157-168 (12 ...

The evolution of sex chromosomes is a fascinating process that has occurred independently across various species, including ...

For more than a century, the common ancestor of flowering plants was thought to have had a seven-celled, eight-nucleate Polygonum-type female gametophyte. It is now evident that not one, but in fact ...