Darwin’s « abominable mystery » : new clues on the origin of the flowering plants.

An article in preview this week in the journal New Phytologist throws new light on one of the big questions of evolutionary biology : the origin of the flowering plants. This group first appeared around 150 million years ago, and rapidly diversified to generate over 300 000 species alive today. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.14483/epdf
This work, which involved a collaboration with members/ex-members of the RDP Laboratory (Team : Evolution and Development of the Flower), is discussed in several newspaper articles and radio broadcasts :


 CNRS website
 France 3/AFP
 Belgique
 France Inter
 Radio Suisse
 Le parisen
 Montreal
 rtbf
 Science et avenir

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