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

New data on the evolution of plants and origin of species Date: October 23, 2019 Source: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Summary: There are over 500,000 plant species in the world today.

Amborella, a record of the evolution of flowering plants Date: April 4, 2014 Source: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) Summary: The sole survivor of the oldest line of flowering ...

New research claims that tomato plants in the Galápagos might actually be de-evolving and picking up ancient traits.

Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, ... Citation: Plant study hints evolution may be predictable (2022, July 18) ...

PROF. COULTER gives a luminous sketch of the probable history of sexual reproduction in plants. He deals with the origin of pairing gametes from spores, with the differentiation of (1) eggs and ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Plants are often synonymous with soil, yet certain marvels of nature defy this association. Enter the world of air plants, or tillandsias, which have adapted to thrive without traditional soil.

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 ...