Dictionary definition: Spermatophyta

Dictionary definition: Spermatophyta
A Dictionary of Biology;      254 words ...Spermatophyta In traditional classifications, a division of the plant kingdom containing plants that reproduce by means of seeds . In modern systems seed plants are grouped into separate phyla, the most important of which are the Anthophyta and Coniferophyta .

Article: Interactions between butterflies (Lepidoptera: rhopalocera) and ...
Journal of the Idaho Academy of Science;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT A summary of a photographic catalog of interactions between butterflies and plants observed in Cassia, Gooding, Minidoka, Oneida, and Twin Falls Counties of South Central Idaho is presented. Butterfly-plant interactions were photographed during butterfly counts, surveys, and other field

Encyclopedia entry: Seed Plants
Canadian Encyclopedia;      700+ words ... ... STEEVES Canadian Encyclopedia 01-01-2002 Seed Plants Author: T.A. STEEVES Seed Plants , the most abundant and familiar component ... ephemeral annuals that survive only a few weeks. Seed plants share with other vascular plants (plants ...

Article: NEW ALLIANCE WILL STUDY POTENTIAL OF SEED ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  May 19, 2000 ;     641 words ... ... Deriving useful industrial materials from seed plants isn't a new technology. International ... the oils can't be squeezed out of seed plants at a cost competitive with petrochemicals ... at the biochemistry and metabolism of seed plants, and how they produce fatty acids and ...

Article: Extensive variation in synonymous substitution rates in ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology;  August 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... on the gene) and wide diversity of seed plants (i.e., gymnosperms and angiosperms ... divergence in mitochondrial genes of seed plants Previous studies identified two plant ... found in mitochondrial genes of other seed plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms), blast ...

Dictionary definition: seed plants
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences;      279 words ...seed plants The group that comprises the gymnosperms and angiosperms , plants distinguished ... pteridophyte forebears, probably of a heterosporous character. These early seed plants were gymnosperms. Angiosperms are not certainly represented in the fossil ...

Article: Malesian Seed Plants Volume 3--Portraits of ...
Kew Bulletin;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...M. M. J. van Balgooy. Malesian Seed Plants Volume 3 - Portraits of Non-Tree Families. Pp. 260, 190 ... families concludes Max van Balgooy's series on Malesian Seed Plants. Previous volumes included Spot-Characters (1997) and ...