A window into plant evolution: The unusual genetic journey of lycophytes - ScienceDaily

Sep. 16, 2021 — A new method for quantifying plant evolution reveals that after the onset of early seed plants, complexity halted for 250 million years until the diversification of flowering ... Read More

A Frond Fared Well: Genes hint that ferns proliferated in shade of flowering plants - Science News

Analyses of genetic material from a multitude of fern species suggest that much of that plant group branched out millions of years after flowering plants appeared, a notion that contradicts many ... Read More

Where did the 1st seeds come from? - Live Science

Plants started using seeds to reproduce toward the end of the Devonian period (419 million to 359 million years ago). Scientists are still studying the exact evolutionary origins of seeds, but the ... Read More

Plant genome evolution shows both episodic and gradual diploidization patterns

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is particularly prevalent in plants, where it facilitates the evolution of new ... Read More

Tracking gene flow in marine plant evolution - ScienceDaily

Science News. from research organizations. Tracking gene flow in marine plant evolution Date: December 10, 2012 Source: ... PLANTS & ANIMALS. Long Shot Science Leads to Revised Age for Land-Animal ... Read More

Ancient Hornwort Genomes Reveal Plant Evolution Insights - Technology Networks

New research reveals insights into the genetic blueprints of hornworts, uncovering fascinating details about plant evolution and the early days of life on land. “We began by decoding the genomes of ... Read More

Genetic Gift May Have Turned Ferns Into Masters of Shadow

Ferns may be an ancient group (they first arose 360 million years ago), but the vast majority of living members arose much later, during the Cretaceous period. By that time, flowering plants were ... Read More

This Insect Has Plant DNA in Its Genome - Smithsonian Magazine

A tiny, aphid-like whitefly sitting on a leaf. Jixing Xia and Zhaojiang Guo. A small, aphid-like insect called a whitefly has plant DNA lurking in its genome—and it’s among the first known ... Read More