With their much-improved assembly of the Amborella genome and sex chromosomes, the researchers have gained valuable insights into the evolution of flowering plants and their reproductive strategies.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A study on Amborella, a plant of remarkable heritage, reveals new information about the origins of flowers on Earth. Amborella hails from an ancient evolutionary lineage, and ...

Amborella is the first known flowering plant and, like the platypus, a genetic dead end. Selaginella's relatives are the fossils in fossil fuel. Now, scientists are studying the genes of these ...

The UCSC Arboretum provided plant material from the its collections to researchers working on the Amborella genome project.

A recent study characterizes the ZW sex chromosomes in Amborella trichopoda, revealing insights into sex determination and early evolutionary dynamics in plants.

Amborella’s genome is expected to shed new light on important traits in flowering plants, including in all major food crop species.

Amborella, with its flowers that are unisexual in function but hermaphrodite in appearance, is not a shocking experimental result. And amborella is known to go transgender, too.

Biologists have sequenced the genome of the Amborella plant. The genome sequence sheds new light on a major event in the history of life on Earth: the origin of flowering plants, including all ...

Recent phylogenetic analyses have placed the root of flowering plants near Amborella trichopoda, a woody plant restricted to cloud forest habitats in New Caledonia. A distinctive feature of A.

Amborella trichopoda, and at maturity consists of eight cells and nine nuclei. Development of the Amborella-type gametophyte is essentially identical to the Polygonum-type except that there is an ...

Alex Harkess holds the Amborella plant sequenced in this study in 2013, during his training in Leebens-Mack’s lab at UGA. Plant reproduction is a cornerstone of our food system and ecological ...