The Pivotal Role of Bryophytes in Plant Evolution. Scientists have long been interested in how plants transitioned from water to land, ... How Gene Transfer Helped Plants Adapt to Land.

Although horizontal gene transfer is prevalent in microorganisms, such sharing of genetic information is thought to be rare in land plants. Focusing on the sequenced moss species,Physcomitrella ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the transfer of genetic material between distinct species, a process that plays a major role in the evolution of a genome. There is an increasing body of evidence for ...

It is well known that prokaryotes regularly exchange genes by horizontal transfer, but there is increasing evidence that such processes also have an important role in eukaryotic evolution ...

Tracking gene flow in marine plant evolution. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 12 / 121210112440.htm. Springer.

ABOVE: A whitefly feeds on a leaf JIXING XIA AND ZHAOJIANG GUO. I n the first known example of horizontal gene transfer between a plant and an animal, a common pest known as the whitefly (Bemisia ...

July 9 (UPI) --New research suggests horizontal gene transfer between different species is a major driver of evolution. Scientists at the University of Adelaide traced the origins of two different ...

Reading the genome and understanding evolution: Symbioses and gene transfer in leaf beetles. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250117112030.htm ...

Among the vegetable world’s most incorrigible villains, the whitefly ranks high. Pale, squishy, and smaller than a sesame seed, these sap-sucking bugs terrorize more than 600 plant species ...

Now, a team led by Ken Shirasu of the RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, has published evidence for nuclear gene transfer between host and parasite plant species1. Mitochondrial genes are those of ...

Plants have evolved to produce a variety of compounds that vary from species to species. These compounds play a key role for the survival strategies of plants. They also can have medicinal uses due to ...