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Van de Peer Genome Biology 2011, 12:113 /2011/12/5/113 RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT A mystery unveiled Yves Van de Peer* 1,2 Abstract Monocots Eudicots Magnoliids A recent phylogenomic study has provided new evidence for two ancient whole genome duplications in plants, with potential importance for the evolution of seed and owering plants. e number of genome duplications uncovered in the evolutionary history of land plants seems to be steadily increasing. In a recent paper in Nature, Jiao et al. [1] provide evidence for two additional, previously unnoticed ancient whole ge