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CCMB scientists unravel Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’ with discovery in flowering plants – DoonWire

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Scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad have uncovered a key genetic innovation that could solve Charles Darwin’s so-called “abominable mystery”: the rapid and diverse emergence of flowering plants roughly 130 million years ago. The study, published recently in Nature Plants, reveals that a newly identified gene, named SHUKR, meaning […]
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They cover the Earth's surface with their forms and colours. Flowers, or more precisely flowering plants (angiosperms), are today the dominant plant group on our planet, with about 300,000 species recorded. Yet, despite their omnipresence and spectacular diversity, their origin remains one of the greatest puzzles of biological evolution. A riddle that Darwin himself described as a "abominable mystery" (abominable mystery), as the sudden and expl…

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Unidivers broke the news in on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.
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