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Genome analysis reveals how algae evolved into land plants
Summary
By analysing the genome of a terrestrial alga, a research group including researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kazusa DNA Research Institute and RIKEN reveal the presence of genes that enable plants to cope with the extremes of life on land, such as drought, and exposure to high-intensity light and UV.“The colonisation of land by plants was a key event in the evolution of life,” point out researchers in Japan in a recent report. The transition provided the nutrients and oxygen that allow terrestrial creatures to survive, yet so far there has been little evidence of the stages in the evolution of plants that allowed them to adapt from aquatic life to conditions on land.
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