突破当代植物系统学的困境

Breaking the stasis of current plant systematics

真花学说一直被看作是被子植物系统发育的主流传统理论,100多年来人们亦步亦趋。但仍然有许多尚未解决的基本问题阻碍着当今植物系统学的和谐发展,甚至导致不同学科和学派之间的分歧。综合分析植物学研究进展,发现当代植物系统学的这些难题实际上是后人盲目崇拜权威、囿于前人的理论造成的,放下这个历史包袱是植物学进步的必然选择。因此提出了可以验证的新的成花学说以供参考。

The plant systematics has been dominated by the Euanthium Theory for over hundred years. Despite all progress made, several important problems defy solutions and block further progress of botany, and one sometimes even sees conflicts among differentbranches and schools in botany. From the history of botany in the past centuries, it is realized that the stasis in the current plant systematics is actually a result of a blind reverence to authority and the self-restriction within the dominating theories. Any progress in the plant systematics would not be possible without dropping these burdens. A new testable hypothesis on the making of flowers is advanced in this paper.