The whole genome of the king protea (Protea cynaroides) has been sequenced, a first for an indigenous plant in the Cape Floral Kingdom. At about 1.18 gigabases (Gb) long there are more than 1.18 ...
Using DNA sequence data, botanists have shown that the large southern hemisphere plant family Proteaceae lived on the super-continent Gondwanaland almost 120 million years ago. As Gondwanaland broke ...