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Global team of researchers, including three New York botanical garden scientists, publish ground-breaking study of ... - EurekAlert
In a new paper published April 24 in the journal <em>Nature</em>, an international team of 279 researchers, including three scientists from The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), used genetic code from more than 9,500 flowering plants (or angiosperms, which represent about 90 percent of known plant life) to create the most detailed evolutionary tree of life for this group of plants to date. Not only does the tree of life shed new light on the evolutionary history of flowering plants, the study's authors believe the data will also aid future attempts to identify new species, refine plant classification, uncover new medicinal compounds, and conserve plants in the face of the dual biodiversity and climate crises.
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