Monash University scientists have uncovered how invasive plants like white clover rapidly adapt to new environments, revealing genetic changes that underpin their global success.

We typically think of evolution as progressing in one direction, with a species getting “better” and “better” as it goes. But evolution is far more complex than that, as has recently been illustrated ...

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MOSS LANDING, Calif. — The sight of the Moss Landing battery storage facility was originally opened in 1950 as a power plant. It was one of the largest power plants on the West Coast at the time.

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns can evolve ‘backward.’ ...

Within Blechnaceae, they discovered, the evolution of dimorphism “is neither stepwise nor irreversible”. In fact, they identified several instances when plants had evolved dimorphism and then ...

It also appears in teaching about the evolution of reproduction in plants. A reconstruction of Cooksonia, an extinct group of vascular plants with telomes, tipped with spores.

Our research focuses on understanding the nature of plant speciation and diversification using a variety of approaches. We use molecular phylogenetics to test ideas of species relationships, taxonomy, ...

Thomas Dorey, Florian P. Schiestl. Bee-pollination promotes rapid divergent evolution in plants growing in different soils. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46841-4 ...

Dozens of plants on a small Japanese island may have shrunk themselves to avoid hungry deer – suggesting that persistent pruning by herbivores could drive the evolution of dwarf plants ...

In the 4-billion-odd-year history of life on Earth, primary endosymbiosis is thought to have only happened twice that we know of, and each time was a massive breakthrough for evolution. The first ...