{"id":7805,"date":"2018-01-14T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainableagriculturewaitrose.org\/?p=7805"},"modified":"2018-01-14T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T10:00:14","slug":"how-flowering-plants-conquered-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/2018\/01\/14\/how-flowering-plants-conquered-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How flowering plants conquered the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7806\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/files\/2018\/01\/99563175_gettyimages-168626617.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/files\/2018\/01\/99563175_gettyimages-168626617.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/files\/2018\/01\/99563175_gettyimages-168626617.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Scientists think they have the answer to a puzzle that baffled even Charles Darwin: How flowers evolved and spread to become the dominant plants on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Flowering plants, or angiosperms, make up about 90% of all living plant species, including most food crops.<\/p>\n<p>In the distant past, they outpaced plants such as conifers and ferns, which predate them, but how they did this has has been a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>New research suggests it is down to genome size &#8211; and small is better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-42656306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more at BBC.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Scientists think they have the answer to a puzzle that baffled even Charles Darwin: How flowers evolved and spread to become the dominant plants on Earth. Flowering plants, or angiosperms, make up about 90% of all living plant species, including most food crops. In the distant past, they outpaced plants such as conifers and ferns, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[67,102,450,451,896,902],"class_list":["post-7805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-clippings","tag-angiosperms","tag-bbc","tag-flowering-plants","tag-flowers","tag-plant-science","tag-plos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}