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The flowering plants comprise some 250,000 species and are tremendously diverse in growth habit, environmental adaptation, and nuclear genome structure. Plant genomes tend to be large and complex, varying in size from ∼38 Mb (1 C ) for the crucifer Cardamine amara to >87,000 Mb for Fritillaria
Jeffrey L. Bennetzen (Sat,) studied this question.