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Evolutionary Biology of Flowers: Prospects for the Next Century

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Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants

Abstract

There are perhaps no other things as deeply ingrained in the needs of mankind as flowers. The Romans summed it up two millennia ago with their slogan “panem et circenses” or “food and pleasure.” Our main sources of food are flowers in the form of their final stage, the fruits and seeds, such as wheat, rice, or corn, but flowers are also an unending source of pleasure with their exciting forms, colors and scents in an often ephemeral display. The manifold forms of flowers and their various interactions with animals are also the epitomy of biodiversity on our planet. The short lifespan of flowers and their vanishing diversity strike emotional chords. Both the food and pleasure aspects of flowers are heavily and increasingly involved in industrial activities including biotechnology. On all these grounds the development, and, in a broader context, the evolution of flowers in their diversity and complexity will inevitably remain one of the central fields of biology.

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Endress, P.K. (1997). Evolutionary Biology of Flowers: Prospects for the Next Century. In: Iwatsuki, K., Raven, P.H. (eds) Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-65918-1_5

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