Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered a remarkable genetic phenomenon in lycophytes, which are similar to ferns and among the oldest land plants. Their study reveals that these plants ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

New research shows fungi diversified nearly a billion years ago, shaping soils and ecosystems long before plants colonized ...

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have ...

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding ...