Lowering lilies on the tree of life Water lilies may belong on the lowest branch of the family tree of flowering plants, along with a shrub called Amborella . Independent and combined analyses of sequences from all three genomic compartments converge on the root of flowering plant phylogeny. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .
Botanists uproot their old tree of life.
Todd J. Barkman Department of Biology Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Life Sciences Consortium Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Claude W. dePamphilis Department of Biology Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Life Sciences Consortium Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 From Science News , Vol. All rights reserved. Subscribe to Science News . Copyright Clearance Center Browse a Science News photo collection. Subscribe to Science News in spoken-word format.