SCALING. “It has been proposed that changes to reproductive features at the base of the angiosperm clade reduced accessory costs thus removing the fitness disadvantage of small seeds. Total accessory costs scaled isometrically to seed mass for angiosperms but less than isometrically for gymnosperms, so that smaller seeds were proportionally more expensive for gymnosperms to produce.”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01425.x/full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022