Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Liverwort uses hair-like rhizoids to collect phosphorus from its surroundings and deliver it to where it is needed. This Kobe ...

When that material is transported into the oceans, it increases the carbon-to-phosphorus ratio of marine sediments. The ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

Despite its small size, this humble plant harbors a genetic mechanism that appears to have been critical for the early evolution of land plants. The gene, called MpARF2, acts as a master regulator of ...

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...

TORONTO, ON – Evolutionary plant biologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have identified a protein that evolved approximately 500 million years ago, enabling plants to convert light into ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago. Roughly 100 million years later, the first backboned animals followed. For ...

“You shouldn’t make decisions when you’re hungry.” Tell that to the cell that ate a bacterium 1.5 billion years ago and set in motion the evolution of all plants on Earth. In this episode of Crash ...

Taken together, the findings suggest that the rise of early land plants significantly advanced the oxidation of Earth's surface environment around 455 million years ago, and may have contributed to ...