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Progress in Studies on Floral Development of Angiosperms and Some Consideration on Future Studies


 With the advent of new methods and techniques, floral development has been ex-
 tensively studied in many groups of angiosperms recently. These studies have resulted in
notable progress and greatly increased our knowledge about the diversity of floral structure and
 developmental patterns as well as phylogenetic relationship of angiosperms. This field is be-
 coming an active and exciting one in systematics of flowering plants. The present paper re-
 viewed this progress from four aspects: (1) the methods of studies on floral development;
 (2) floral development and the diversity of floral structure; (3) floral development and phy-
 logeny of angiosperms; (4) molecular genetics of floral development. In addition, several fu-
 ture directions and some problems needing attention in this field are discussed: (1) extensive
 studies on floral developmental studies of extensive species of angiosperms and comparison of
 floral structures among them; (2) research of floral development of homeotic flowers as well
 as their systematic and evolutionary value; (3) floral structure should be studied from the
 viewpoint of dynamics, because the structure of plants can be seen as a spatio-temporal pro-
 cess, and the use of structural categories in systematics may distort the natural dynamics.


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