Tag: land plants
The first footholds for land plants may have been much smaller than imagined
A polysaccharide found in the cell walls of land plants has now been found outside the cell. This chemical, Xyloglucan, could be one of clues as to how plants moved onto land.
Roots create … rock
What are holocentric chromosomes good for?
Possessing holocentric chromosomes may confer an advantage in clastogenic conditions and environments.
Phylogeny of OVATE family proteins in land plants
One of a kind…
Rare and monotypic Amborella is probably the living – extant – flowering plant closest evolutionarily to the first true member of the angiosperm group.