Seed plants, such as soybeans, store large amounts of protein in specialized organelles called protein storage vacuoles. These proteins not only sustain seedling growth but also serve as a major ...

These changes range from simple insertional mutations to genetic reprogramming, gene movement and the evolution of novel functional protein-coding sequences. To restrain TE activity, plants have a ...

Biologists have analyzed the genome sequence of the common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) to identify genes and gene families that were deemed crucial to plant evolution and have been conserved ...

"This genome will tell us about the evolution of angiosperm genomes ... near the base of the evolutionary tree. Plants are more difficult to sequence than animals because their genomes are ...

“So the sequence becomes clear now,” said Venkatesan ... Development of the embryo sac is arguably the key element in the evolution from gymnosperms to flowering plants, also known as angiosperms. Yet ...

We now know just how the earliest land plants, ancient algae ... resource for studying species evolution and understanding genetic diversity. A whole genome sequence is more useful if the assembly ...

The discovery could force a re-think of a century-old theory of leafy plant evolution. Most modern land ... derived from the famous Fibonacci sequence – a set of numbers where each is the ...

This negates a long-held theory about the evolution of plant leaf spirals ... by the famous mathematical series the Fibonacci sequence. Named after the Italian mathematician, Leonardo Fibonacci ...

Are genetically modified (GM) plants the solution to achieving sustainable agriculture, clearing up pollution and eradicating ...

Using comparative genomics, ancestral sequence reconstructions ... interplay between enzyme and genome evolution in the origins, loss, and re-emergence of plant chemical diversity.