A window into plant evolution: The unusual genetic journey of lycophytes Date: January 18, 2024 Source: Boyce Thompson Institute Summary: An international team of researchers has uncovered a ...

The findings provided the first examples in plants of a phenomenon known as “replicated radiation,” in which similar forms evolve repeatedly within different regions, suggesting that evolution is not ...

“Bringing together modeling, physiology and paleontology and integrating their data and methods shed a great deal of light on this period in plant evolution ... Using a computer model, the researchers ...

thaliana, which is a model plant initially without the function to produce any alkaloid. It is interesting to note that the research team recreated the metabolic evolution of the plant producing ...

We used a family tree of all land plants to model the rate at which new species were formed, and the rates of genome size evolution. 'We discovered a link between the rates of genome size ...

A new study on the timescale of plant evolution has concluded that the first ... "Previous attempts to model these changes in the atmosphere have accepted the plant fossil record at face value ...

But some of these overlooked species hold clues to one of the greatest mysteries of evolution, scientists have found: how plants arrived on land. On Thursday, researchers published the genomes of ...