Scientists create massive DNA tree of life for all plants 🪴🌴 For the past eight years, Bill Baker and his colleagues have been mapping the evolutionary relationships between flowering plants. So far, they have sequenced the genes of 9506 species of flowering plants, around 60 per cent, mainly using specimens from herbaria around the world and public databases. The newly compiled tree of life will help scientists piece together the origins of flowering plants, help to inform future conservation