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1: Genome Biol. 2002 Aug 30;3(9):reviews1026. Epub 2002 Aug 30.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Evolutionary origins of the endosperm in flowering plants.

Baroux C, Spillane C, Grossniklaus U.

Institute of Plant Biology, Zurich, Switzerland.

The evolutionary origin of double fertilization and the resultant endosperm tissue in flowering plants remains a puzzle, despite over a century of research. The recent resurgence of approaches to evolutionary developmental biology combining comparative biology with phylogenetics provides new understanding of endosperm origins.

PMID: 12225592 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC139410