That common-ancestors-being-totally-different thing is wonderful. But really, wood is just wood, it’s not even “the” “interesting” feature compared to, say, the placement of the next-season(s) buds (which is an instrumental thing in itself, but at least a higher-order instrumental thing.)
I’d love to see an ELI5 explanation of high the MADS-box genes coordinate about making wood in an Arabidopsis plant, that has to be some serious challenge for them.
That common-ancestors-being-totally-different thing is wonderful. But really, wood is just wood, it’s not even “the” “interesting” feature compared to, say, the placement of the next-season(s) buds (which is an instrumental thing in itself, but at least a higher-order instrumental thing.)
I’d love to see an ELI5 explanation of high the MADS-box genes coordinate about making wood in an Arabidopsis plant, that has to be some serious challenge for them.