Planten geven waarschuwingssignalen af om hun buren te waarschuwen tegen vraat, toch? Een nieuwe studie laat zien dat planten niet zo altruïstisch zijn als we denken.
Category Archives: Evolution
Disrupting hurricanes
Disrupting hurricanes Researchers long thought that plants pollinated by specialised pollinators risk an evolutionary dead end. Now a group of international researchers show in New Pythologist that this does not have to be the case. The Caribbean island Dominica contains an exception on the rule that plants located on islands don’t have specialised pollinators. TwoContinue reading “Disrupting hurricanes”
Old clones
Old clones A group of international researchers discovered that an eelgrass colony is about 1400 years old. They managed this feat due to the developing an new age determination method for clones that they published in Nature and Ecology & Evolution. For organisms that multiply by cloning themselves it is difficult to determine their age.Continue reading “Old clones”
Biggest plant family tree
Biggest plant family tree Always wanted to know how forget-me-nots and oak trees are related. Now you can find out using the up till now biggest ever family tree of flowering plants. Researchers recently published this family tree in Nature. First a few numbers. 279 researchers out of 27 countries worked on the family tree.Continue reading “Biggest plant family tree”
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