Cruciferous plants' pungent defense mechanism: How repurposed stomatal genes also fend off herbivores
Throughout evolution, plants have continuously adapted to survive in changing environments. Apart from complex structural ...
Mar 22: What fossil plants say about the evolution of life, and more…
On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and ...
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Genetic defense breakthrough: plants repurpose stomatal genes to fend off herbivores
Over time, plants have evolved various strategies to defend against herbivores. A new study uncovers how these plant defense ...
How climate and barriers shape global patterns in seed plant distribution over millions of years
Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study led by researchers at the University of Göttingen ...
Plants breathe with millions of tiny mouths. We used lasers to understand how this skill evolved
Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...
Plants 'breathe' with millions of tiny mouths—lasers illuminate evolution of stomata behavior
Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...
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Plant Cells, Chloroplasts, and Cell Walls
Plant cells have several structures not found ... which remain similar to the cyanobacteria of 3 million years ago. However, the evolution of photosynthesis goes back even further, to the earliest ...
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Evolution of plant network: 600 million years of stress
Now, a research team has compared algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and pinpointed a shared stress response network using advanced bioinformatic methods.
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Plants Repurpose Genes to Ward Off Herbivores
Throughout evolution, plants have continuously adapted to survive in changing environments. Apart from complex structural ...