🌏🌱🔬🍁 My latest @theplantcell.bsky.social In Brief article is online! 🧪🌾🌐🌺

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/plce...

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Gene networks are conserved across reproductive development between the fern Ceratopteris richardii and the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana How plants first invented seeds is a longstanding unresolved evolutionary question. Seed-bearing plants arose from within seedless vascular plants, with ferns as their closest relatives, but how the s...

It's been a long time coming but I'm very happy to share this preprint with folks. 🙂 Thanks again to the Royal Society for funding this research.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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