Looking to DNA for answers as climate change outpaces California wildlife's ability to evolve

Ecosystems are not being able to adapt as quickly as the climate is changing. Scientists are turning to genetic work to guide ...
ZME Science

Plants May Have Survived Earth’s Massive Extinctions by Doubling Their Genome

When the world goes bad, some plants do something astonishing. They can’t run or hide, nor can they do much about changing ...
Science Daily

Who are the Japanese? Huge DNA discovery rewrites history

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...

Plants survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid by duplicating genomes, study suggests

When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly ...
New Scientist on MSN

Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions

Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of ...

Plants evolved distinct functions for two forms of a fundamental signaling molecule, study shows

The molecule cAMP, which plays essential roles in mammalian cells, is less well understood in plants. In a new Science ...
Earth.com

Scientists have unraveled the details of how plants clone themselves

Plants have been cloning themselves for millions of years. Strawberries send out runners, potatoes sprout new shoots, and ...
Frontiers

Molecular Evolution and Regulatory Innovation in Plants: Gene Family Diversification and Small RNA Networks

Plant molecular evolution offers key insights into how coding and regulatory changes shape the diversity of form and function across the plant kingdom. The ...