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How primitive plants evolved to survive Earth's most catastrophic extinction event
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At the end of the permian, 250 million years ago, a massive volcanoism made the Earth a furnace, leading to a real hecatombe among animal and plant species. Spore plants, lycophytes, managed to survive, thanks to their particular type of photosynthesis "The world was literally cooking", assen Zhen Xu, Chinese researcher at the University of Leeds, while she explains the context of her discovery, published this Monday in the journal Nature Ecolog…
How primitive plants evolved to survive Earth's most catastrophic extinction event
Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a group of primitive plants to survive. Research led by the University of Leeds has revealed how lycophytes—a type of ancient plant—not only survived a mass extinction 250 million years ago but then came to dominate the recovering landscapes.
Primitive plants survived about 252 million years ago to the largest mass extinction of the Permico-Triasico, adapting the process of photosynthesis, a mechanism also helped them to dominate the landscape in the following years.
Some 252 million years ago, the primitive plants survived the greatest mass extinction, that of the Permico-Triassic, and they did so by adapting the photosynthesis process, a mechanism that not only allowed them to live, but also helped them dominate the landscapes in the following years.The entry A new photosynthesis, the mechanism that saved the plants from the greatest mass extinction was first published in Digital Process.
How Primitive Plants Adapted to Survive Earth’s Most Devastating
In an unprecedented discovery published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers from the University of Leeds have illuminated how primitive plants, known as lycophytes, remarkably adapted to survive one of Earth’s most devastating environmental crises: the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event, colloquially termed the “Great Dying.” This catastrophe, which occurred approximately 250 million years ago, was […]
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