plant-evolution
Plant evolution describes the historical development of plants from unicellular organisms to the complex multicellular species inhabiting modern ecosystems, encompassing the transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments and from spore-bearing to seed-bearing forms. Understanding plant evolution is essential for explaining the diversity of plant structures, physiology, and ecological strategies that enable plants to thrive across different habitats. This research directly informs our knowledge of how evolutionary innovations—such as vascular tissue, seeds, and flowers—shaped the botanical world and continues to influence how plants adapt to changing environmental conditions.
open_in_new WikipediaThe potential of plant palaeogenomic research.
Ancient genetic blueprints being recovered from preserved plant remains could help breed tougher,...
Early birds and night owls: natural variation of circadian traits i...
The weeds taking over your garden, the wildflowers creeping into new climate zones, and the crops...
Pollinator efficiency, rather than bee decline, explains a shift to...
Next time you spot a hummingbird hovering at a tubular red flower in a mountain garden, you're wa...
Structural innovation and flexibility in plant chemical defenses.
The bitter taste in your kale, the scent of your roses, and the itch from nettles all come from t...
Photosynthetic activity in the heterotrophic plant genus Cuscuta (C...
That orange spaghetti-like vine strangling your tomatoes or black-eyed Susans isn't just a thief ...
Harnessing polyploidy for climate-resilient crops: Lessons from the...
Cotton's wild evolutionary trick of doubling its entire genome is now a roadmap for plant breeder...
A non-coding SNP in ELF3 alters ELF3β expression and confers adapta...
Thale cress — the tiny white-flowered weed threading through sidewalk cracks — carries clock gene...
The origin of mechanical advantage in angiosperms
Every tomato, apple, and oak in your yard owes its ability to thrive in heat and drought partly t...
Ecological change may be a common initiator of evolutionary pollina...
Every time a gardener notices that bees have stopped visiting a plant that once buzzed with them,...
Lipid droplet proteome plasticity in plant evolution, growth and de...
Every seed you plant — from sunflower to squash — survives dormancy and powers its first days of ...
The origin and evolution of auxin as a plant signaling molecule.
Every time you pinch back a leggy seedling or stake a climbing vine, auxin is the signal your pla...
Gene co-option across scales shapes plant diversity.
Every bizarre flower shape, carnivorous trap, or prickly stem you've ever marveled at in a botani...
A single-cell blueprint for cellular diversity in the Green Lineage.
Every crop plant breeders are racing to make drought-tolerant depends on the same ancient genetic...
A three-step model for the establishment of polyploid plants.
Many of the vegetables and fruits in your garden — strawberries, potatoes, wheat — are polyploids...
Phylogenomic and evolutionary analysis of arrowhead (<i>Sagit...
Arrowhead plants — grown as a starchy food crop across Asia and as ornamentals in backyard water ...
Repurposing genome skimming data for non-model plant functional phy...
Roseroot supplements on your pharmacy shelf come from wild plants under pressure in the Himalayas...
Integrative morphological and genomic analyses reveal diversity, re...
Wild roses from Central Asia are the ancestors of many garden roses you grow today, and understan...
Silene, a versatile model system: from sex and genome evolution to ...
Understanding how plants like campions and catchflies adapt, fight disease, and evolve new traits...
Why are so few island bryophytes endemic?
Those velvety green mosses carpeting the rocks and logs in shaded ravines or ancient woodlands ar...
Early evolutionary history of the seed.
Every seed you plant—sunflower, tomato, oak acorn—carries engineering solutions that took 350 mil...
Diversification of plant specific organellar single-stranded DNA bi...
Every rice plant in a paddy and every vegetable in your kitchen garden runs its cellular metaboli...
The algal homolog of the plant CER1 and CER3 proteins is a bifuncti...
The silvery bloom on a blueberry and the water-sheeting surface of a nasturtium leaf are relics o...
Whole-genomic and transcriptomic analyses elucidate p-cresol and st...
Genomic studies like this one build the foundational maps that help breeders develop hardier, mor...
