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I removed the sentence "Such a family has been recognised by many taxonomists, at least after the plants were discovered, which was relatively recently." It is ambiguous and not in agreement with other information about the plant in Wikipedia. The single species in the Amborellaceae, Amborella trichopoda Baill., was described in the botanical literature by the 19th C. French botanist Henri Ernest Baillon. KP Botany 02:56, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
This article ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08flower.html?_r=2&8dpc ) says some of the same things as in the Wiki article, and might make a good reference? I'm not sure if NYT articles still go offline after a few weeks, though, for non-members? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.13.178 (talk) 01:20, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
I vote no. The pages are different enough in content. Nessie (talk) 06:23, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Merged content of articles and Talk pages. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:43, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
why don't we say its in the division "amborellophyta", class "amborellopsida",order "amborales", family "amborellaceae". its not pointlessly redundant, just good fun with suffixes.
The article says "Its wood lacks the vessels characteristic of most flowering plants." I assume that the plant still transports water from root to leaf; what does the plant use in place of vessels? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.180.26.209 (talk) 01:35, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
A few of the citations are actually never referenced. Citations 2 and 3 are not referenced in this wikipedia article. The link for number 6 directs the page to a French website, which I cannot understand. Several links do not lead to anywhere, or cannot be found these are as follows: 5, 9, 10, 18, and 23. Certain links only lead to abstracts or to websites to purchase the articles/books. Those are as follows: 7, 15, 19, 20, and 22. Some articles referenced also appear ot have bias. Reference citation 16, the article itself seems a bit biased, which is not noted in the wikipedia article. The link to 17 leads to a location that is biased, it almost sounds as if it is trying to convince you to donate, simply because they claim to be so advanced. 21 also seems a bit biased. It almost seems like the author is trying to entertain rather than inform. Rebekah Bare˜˜˜˜ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rmccann15 (talk • contribs) 15:53, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
Is this for sure?
Sequencing the Amborella mitochondrial genome revealed that for every gene of its own origin, it contains about six versions from the genomes of an assortment of the plants and algae growing with or upon it. The evolutionary and physiological significance of this is not as yet clear, nor in particular is it clear whether the horizontal gene transfer has anything to do with the apparent stability and conservatism of the species.
It's got two references, .... the first says
“For every native gene, it contains six foreign copies of that gene, acquired from a range of land plants and green algae.”
which is similar but not exactly the same as what we have. I cant get to the paper that's in the second reference, but the abstract says
We report the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the flowering plant Amborella trichopoda. This enormous, 3.9-megabase genome contains six genome equivalents of foreign mitochondrial DNA, acquired from green algae, mosses, and other angiosperms.
which is still not the same as what we have. I note, though, the first reference is quoting verbatim from the second. —Soap— 20:44, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
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