Posted by: Sandy Steinman | May 7, 2024

New sunflower family tree reveals multiple origins of flower symmetry

ScienceDaily  reports

A new sunflower family tree used skimmed genomes to increase the number of species sampled, revealing that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, among the members of this large plant family.

Read article at  New sunflower family tree reveals multiple origins of flower symmetry | ScienceDaily


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