Contents Summary 1012 I. Introduction 1013 II. The mycorrhizal symbiosis at the dawn and
rise of the land flora 1014 III. From early land plants to early trees: the origin of roots and true …

Members of the MADS-box transcription factor family play essential roles in almost every
developmental process in plants. Many MADS-box genes have conserved functions across …

Recent advances in molecular phylogenetics and a series of important palaeobotanical
discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of angiosperm diversification. Yet, the …

Sex chromosomes in land plants can evolve as a consequence of close linkage between the
two sex determination genes with complementary dominance required to establish stable …

The ideal reference for students of botany and horticulture, gardeners, and naturalists. The
diverse external shapes and structures that make up flowering plants can be bewildering …

The formation of flowers is one of the main models for studying the regulatory mechanisms
that underlie plant development and evolution. Over the past three decades, extensive …

Floral morphology is key for understanding floral evolution and plant identification. Floral
diagrams are two-dimensional representations of flowers that replace extensive descriptions …

Increasingly robust understanding of angiosperm phylogeny allows more secure
reconstruction of the flower in the most recent common ancestor of extant angiosperms and …

Molecular data on relationships within angiosperms confirm the view that their increasing
morphological diversity through the Cretaceous reflected their evolutionary radiation …

Evo-devo is often thought of as being the study of which genes underlie which phenotypes.
However, evo-devo is much more than this, especially in plant science. In leaf scars along …