Evolutionary diversification of the flowers in angiosperms
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Evolutionary diversification of the flowers in angiosperms.
Angiosperms and their flowers have greatly diversified into an overwhelming array of forms in the past 135 million years. Diversification was shaped by changes in climate and the biological environment (vegetation, interaction with other organisms) and by internal structural constraints and potentials. This review focuses on the development and structural diversity of flowers and structural con...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Botany
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0002-9122,1537-2197
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000299