The nuclear endosperm of monocots, including the cereal species maize, rice, barley, and
wheat, represents humankind's most important renewable source of food, feed, and …

Background Ovules as developmental precursors of seeds are organs of central importance
in angiosperm flowers and can be traced back in evolution to the earliest seed plants …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by
analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction …

The biological and social sciences often generalize causal conclusions from one context or
location to others that may differ in some relevant respects, as is illustrated by inferences …

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

The female reproductive unit of flowering plants, the haploid female gametophyte, is highly
reduced relative to other land plants. We show that patterning of the Arabidopsis female …

Abstract Doyle, ja (Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis,
California 95616, USA). Seed ferns and the origin of angiosperms. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 133 …

Morphological modularity arises in complex living beings due to a semi‐independent
inheritance, development, and function of body parts. Modularity helps us to understand the …

Eudicots and their currently recognized major subclades are characterized as to floral
structure (including some “embryological” features) based on ca. 3000 original publications …