The first “dessert” item has to do with ancient vascular plants known as lycopods, along with members of a relic fern group dating to the dinosaur age. It’s a great story about a grad student at UC Berkely who’s a self-described prehistoric-plant geek. Primitive-plant uber-geek’s heart belongs to lycopods.
How do plants tell time?
Where & when did flowers originate?
What's Darwin's "abominable mystery"?
What genes control flowering in plants?
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