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Article: Flowering plants reinvented weediness by outcompeting ancient plants.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- September 4, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, September 4 (ANI): A new research has determined that flowering plants originated not as trees, but as relatively non-woody "pre-trees" that could outcompete ancient plants like conifers, thus reinventing the concept of weediness.
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