This graphic shows key events in the establishment of a land flora. These were the primordial ... Other lineages established themselves as extant terrestrial charophytes, here exemplified by ...

In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would exist them. “Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists,” says McMaster University biochemistry professor Gerry Wright. Fungi produce ...

On land, many plants, such as legumes, form an intimate symbiotic relationship with nitrogen ... “Nitrogen acquisition is a fundamentally important part of the functioning of these communities.” W.

The four multicellular Zygnema algae belong to the class Zygnematophyceae, the closest living relatives of land plants; it is a class of freshwater and semi-terrestrial algae with more than 4,000 ...

The first land plants (Embryophyta ... paper states that the Zygnematophyceae possess adaptations to withstand terrestrial stressors, such as desiccation, ultraviolet light, freezing, and other ...

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost ... it turned out to be “the world's oldest fossilized large land plant.” An academic paper on the rediscovery was published ...

Mammals evolved for land life before the ... This transformation of the plant life probably had some effect on the mammals, forcing many of them towards terrestrial habitats as they became ...