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Article: How flowering plants originated about 130 million years ago.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- May 19, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, May 19 (ANI): A new study is helping shed light on the mystery of the sudden origin of flowering plants about 130 million years ago, with information about what the first flowers looked like and how they evolved from non-flowering plants.
"There was nothing like them before and nothing like them since," said Andre Chanderbali, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral associate at Unifersity of Florida's (UF's) Florida Museum of Natural History.
"The origin of the flower is the key to the origin of the angiosperms (flowering plants)," he added.
The flower is one of the key innovations of evolution, responsible ...