Two major steps kicked off the chain of events that helped land plants prosper, forming the basis for modern land-based ecosystems and fundamentally altering the course of evolution of life on ...

A team of researchers led by Prof. WANG Wei from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has ...

Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to better ... an organism must be well suited to its environment. For example, a plant in the Mojave Desert needs to make do with very ...

To do this, the scientists utilized information about plant pollen ... changes in plant life (Link). For the new article now published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, scientists compared the ...

looks at how plant fossils are telling the billion-years old tale of the evolution of complex life on Earth, from creating the oxygen that we breathe, to coaxing us out of the water and onto land ...

Using genetic data from over 1,100 species, the team helped to create the most comprehensive evolutionary tree for green plants to date. Scientists build road map for 1 billion year evolution of ...

The evolution of roots transformed life on Earth – and understanding them could help us to grow more resilient plants. More than 400 million years ago, in a patch of wafer-thin soil, a tiny ...

This is how the diversity of life on Earth came to be ... we sought to study whether a one-way model of reproductive evolution always held true in plants. To the contrary, we found that in ...