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Scientists declared they have found 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiotic organism in marine fossils believed to be the ancestors of the earliest land-based lichens ever found, shedding light on the sea-to-land evolution of plant life.
The scientists reports having discovered three...
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Vegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants
Earth's deciduous plants have a sharp order-of-magnitude increase in leaf reflectance between approximately 700 and 750 nm wavelength. This strong reflectance of Earth's vegetation sugges...
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The parasitic dodder plant doesn't have a nose, but it knows how to sniff out its prey.
The dodder (Cuscuta) attacks such plants as tomatoes, carrots, onions, citrus trees, cranberries, alfalfa and even flowers, and is a problem for farm...
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A new University of Colorado at Boulder study involving a "living fossil plant" that has survived on Earth for 130 million years suggests its novel reproductive structure may be a "missing link" between flowering plants and their ancestors.
The Amborella plant, found in the rain forests of Ne...
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Geologists in Gujarat are thrilled after a massive fossilised tree of Jurassic age was recently discovered at Dholavira -- an ancient metropolitan city of the Harrapan civilisation which is now an archaeological site in the Rann of Kutch.
"It is an amazing find. The fossil-tree is at least...
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To their surprise, the plants, which have a one-metre-wide, blood-red, rotten-flesh stinking flower, belong to a family of plants bearing tiny blooms.
The Rafflesiaceae were tricky to place because of their unusual features, the team reports in the journal Science.
The botanists used DNA a...
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Botanists discover 'remarkable' night-flowering orchid A night-flowering orchid, the first of its kind known to science, has been described by a team of botanists. Experts say the "remarkable" species is the only orchid known to consistently flower at night, but why it has adopted th...
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