A team of 40 researchers across four continents spent five years analyzing 852 genes from 103 types of land plants to learn more about early plant evolution. The study published in PNAS expands knowledge of relationships among earliest land plants. One of the researchers, Norman Wickett, is co-leader of the global initiative using supercomputers and gene sequencing to study plant evolution, allowing insight into early events like having a time machine. An infographic was created to illustrate the research.

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Plant Evolution
Infographic
Adriana Reyneri — November 13, 2014
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It’s like having a time machine—supercomputers
and gene sequencing allow scientists to study early
events in plant evolution.
One of our conservation scientists, Norman Wickett, Ph.D., is co-leader of
a global initiative involving some 40 researchers on four continents. The
team has spent the past five years analyzing 852 genes from 103 types of
land plants to tease out early events in plant evolution. The results,
published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, expand our knowledge of relationships among the earliest plants
on land.
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