Sentences with phrase «plant evolution suggests»

Not exact matches

The fossil record suggests that «whenever you have a major evolution of plants, you get a major cooling,» Retallack says.

Now, Lenton and his colleagues suggest that the evolution of land plants may have triggered the glaciations — and they've got lab data to back up the idea.

A new study of cactus evolution suggests that the plant's water - saving strategies might have come first, followed only later by dramatic changes in the plant's anatomy.

«It suggests that the findings we can manage locally, like pesticides, habitat destruction and planting companion plants, can actually make a difference because these factors can buy pollinators time for natural selection and evolution, thus allowing the species to keep pace with the things that we can't manage locally,» said Galen.

David Lee, a tropical botanist at Florida International University in Miami, says that although the evidence is speculative, the study suggests that «to understand the evolution of plant traits, you also need to look at extinct herbivores and their interactions with the plants.»

Michael Le Page suggests the release of genetically engineered «superphotosynthesising» plants to help kick - start evolution following a future mass extinction...

Their work also suggests that the components were recruited for this purpose early during the evolution of flowering plants.