#landplants — Public Fediverse posts
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How did plants evolve to cope with such a challenging and changing habitat?
It turns out the answer is in 600 million years of stress! A research team led by our Uni compared algae and plants spanning million years of independent evolution. Using advanced bioinformatic methods, they pinpointed a shared stress response network: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7740
Research at #NatureCommunications: https://doi.org/n9m4
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Study reshapes understanding of mass #extinction in Late Devonian era
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-reshapes-mass-extinction-late-devonian.htmlThe expansion of #LandPlants during the Late #Devonian contributed to the marine #MassExtinction https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01087-8
"Diverse and full of #SeaLife, the Earth's Devonian era—taking place more than 370 million years ago—saw the emergence of the first seed-bearing #plants, which spread as large #forests across the #continents of #Gondwana and #Laurussia."