Early angiosperms represent a pivotal chapter in plant evolution, marked by rapid diversification and profound ecological impact during the Early Cretaceous. These flowering plants, distinguished by ...

Plant sexuality deals with the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. This article describes morphological aspects of sexual reproduction of plants. That plants ...

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction to angiosperms; 2. The nature of the angiosperm fossil record; 3. The environmental context of early angiosperm evolution; 4. Stratigraphic ...

Thermogenesis is present in plants such as 'Macrozamia communis', which raise the temperature of their reproductive organs when in bloom to attract pollinating insects. Thermogenesis is a process by ...

Lijuan Li, Xiaoting Xu, Hong Qian, Xianhan Huang, Pengju Liu, Jacob B Landis, Quansheng Fu, Lu Sun, Hengchang Wang, Hang Sun, Tao Deng Diversity and Distributions ...

A tiny flower pressed between layers of sandstone for more than 160 million years could be the oldest flower fossil ever found, a new study reports. However, not everyone agrees that the fossil ...