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.

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 ...

Our new study is the first to show that lateral gene transfer is widespread in this important plant group, and it occurs in wild and cultivated species alike. Our discovery is based on genetic ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Horizontal gene transfer introduces into an organism genes that were not vertically transmitted from the parent organism, and therefore has the potential to interfere with phylogenetic analyses.

Dynamic evolution of pectinases. The analyses also revealed that the vast majority of the beetle species use either their own pectinases, acquired through horizontal gene transfer, or the ...

For the first time, a technique known as "gene silencing" has produced resistance to a bacterial disease in crop plants, report researchers at the University of California, Davis. The technique holds ...