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Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … in flowering plants, or angiosperms, suggesting they are evolutionarily conserved across plant lineages. They hypothesized that certain gene families — including fungal genes horizontally transferred — contributed to the …

… teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant fibers. But are they both … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … dataset was particularly important for characterizing fungal genes, because, unlike bacteria, they often carry …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that … buck. The research team reports that transferring just four genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as  …

… — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a … event that occured some 60 million years ago. Massive gene loss, rampant gene duplications, and even more ancient …