plant kingdom

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Even more exciting is that this knowledge of these genes, which are highly conserved across the plant kingdom, could help biofortify other crops such as wheat and barley using gene-editing and other modern breeding techniques.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2023

Convergence is widespread in the plant kingdom as well: carnivorous plants evolved at least a dozen times, roots evolved more than once, and even arborescence—plants taking the form of trees—evolved more than once.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023

But recent research from the plant kingdom shows that a mouth isn’t essential.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

This is a fairly common behavior in the plant kingdom, but almost every example is found in orchids, a type of flower that numbers over 28,000 species.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2023

Seen with Goethe's eyes, the plant kingdom as a whole appears to be a single mighty plant.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst