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

In the end, the team used data from about 60 percent of all modern genera of plants. As they put the new evolutionary tree together, they found that it confirmed many of the relationships ...

The evolution of these two branches of the plant evolutionary tree makes another complex story. • Mary F. Willson is a retired professor of ecology. “On The Trails” is a weekly column that ...

New ancient plant captures snapshot of evolution Date: May 4, 2020 Source: Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences Summary: Researchers have discovered an ancient plant species ...

Timing plant evolution with a fast-ticking epigenetic clock Peer-Reviewed Publication. University of Georgia. Recent discoveries in the field of epigenetics, the study ...