Article: Gene tests help solve 'abominable mystery' of flowering plants

Article: Ancient shrub unlocks a clue to Darwin's 'abominable ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  May 18, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... what he called an "abominable mystery" - the origin of flowering plants. "It's no different ... missing link" between flowering plants and more-ancient ... cells common to all flowering plants. But these sacs also ...

Article: Plant reproduction: Insights into the "abominable ...
Plant Cell;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... development and diversification of the flowering plants in recent geological times as an "abominable mystery." The mystery of the origin of angiosperms ... CHARACTERS Phylogenetic analysis of the flowering plants is a tremendously difficult task because ...

Article: Flood geology's abominable mystery.(Report)
Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Flowering plants represent the dominant part of Earth ... once referred to by Darwin as an "abominable mystery" because they appear so late and ... explain the observed appearance of flowering plants late in the fossil record. This ...

Article: SCIENCE TEAMS FIND MAP TO FIRST FLOWERING ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 29, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... called it the ``abominable mystery'': How did the world's flowering plants, the most diverse ... earliest history of flowering plants and identifying the ... characteristics of flowering plants, from their defining ...

Article: How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth?
Biotech Week;  December 16, 2009 ;     658 words ... ... Charles Darwin it was an 'abominable mystery' and it is a question ... to this day: when did flowering plants evolve and how did they ... trigger which led to early flowering plants gaining a major competitive ... physiology to reveal how flowering plants, including crops, ...

Article: Rocks yield clues to flower origins.(fossil record of ...
Science News;  April 21, 2001 ;     693 words ... ... flowers come from? Flowering plants suddenly appeared ... referred to as "an abominable mystery." Now, geochemist ... chemical signature of flowering plants in ancient fossil ... Many modern-day flowering plants produce a family ...

Article: University of Florida Botanists Help Create 'Supertree' of ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  February 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... debate about how flowering plants diversified into ... recognized that flowering plants underwent an extraordinarily ... calling it an "abominable mystery." Since then ... spurred the success of flowering plants, while others have ...