Dec. 3, 2024 — Plant species can fulfill different functions within an ecosystem, even if they are closely related to each other. This surprising conclusion was reached by a global analysis of ...
Plant adaptation to life on land included gaining the ability to obtain nutrients from barren terrestrial substrates. New work pinpoints a small, conserved genetic core with extensive rewiring of ...
Dec. 5, 2024 — The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to successive ...