microrobert
02-16-2015, 04:54 AM
Fern 'Love Child' Provides Insight on Plant Reproduction
Scientists have discovered a fern "love child" in the mountains of France and found that it is the result of a puzzling reunion, providing insight on plant reproduction, according to a new study.
About 60 million years ago, an oak fern and a fragile fern - two distantly-related groups of plants - went their separate ways, stopped exchanging genes and split into separate lineages. However, despite this evolutionary breakup the two plants managed to create offspring in the form of a delicate woodland fern, found on a forest floor in the French Pyrenees.
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/12750/20150214/fern-love-child-provides-insight-on-plant-reproduction.htm
Scientists have discovered a fern "love child" in the mountains of France and found that it is the result of a puzzling reunion, providing insight on plant reproduction, according to a new study.
About 60 million years ago, an oak fern and a fragile fern - two distantly-related groups of plants - went their separate ways, stopped exchanging genes and split into separate lineages. However, despite this evolutionary breakup the two plants managed to create offspring in the form of a delicate woodland fern, found on a forest floor in the French Pyrenees.
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/12750/20150214/fern-love-child-provides-insight-on-plant-reproduction.htm