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

Gametophytes produce gametes—eggs and sperm—which unite to form a fertilized egg capable of becoming a new sporophyte, thus completing a life cycle. While all plants exhibit alternation of ...

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

This is how the diversity of life on Earth came to be. ... Indeed, the flower is often diagrammed as the end goal of botanical evolution. Across the plant kingdom, ...

Her new book, When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance, looks at how plant fossils are telling the billion-years old tale of the evolution of complex life on ...

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 ...

01/24/2024 10:41 Lost Diversity: The Evolution of Plant Life Over 5,000 Years Anja-Maria Meister Pressestelle Universität Bayreuth. The influence of humans is causing originally diverse ...

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 ...