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Scientists traced roses’ thorny origins and solved a 400 million-year-old mystery
The flowers instead have prickles that form from the skin of the ... which is why there are some rose species without the spikes today. But now that the gene responsible for the prickles has ...
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Love, sex and death: Our near-universal obsession with the rose
No flower is more entwined with myth, religion, politics and the human form than the humble rose — and now there's a new ...