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As plants evolved to become large and complex, they did so in full multicellularity, sexuality, and structure. The evolution of complexity in the plant kingdom is nowhere better seen than in the elaboration of structures for sexual reproduction in plants as diverse as the algae and the angiosperms. The latter are probably the preeminent plants to have achieved a high level of structural and functional sophistication in their reproductive biology. In part, this is a consequence of the production of the flower within which the essential units of sexual reproduction are housed.
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Ramachandran, C., Raghavan, V. (1992). Apomixis in Distant Hybridization. In: Kalloo, G., Chowdhury, J.B. (eds) Distant Hybridization of Crop Plants. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84306-8_7
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