Category: Plants
Do short plants evolve faster than tall ones?
| May 25, 2013 | Posted by News under Evolution, Plants |
There is at least some evidence that this is true. But why? more
Do tomatoes know something we don’t?
| August 17, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Plants |
“Our seemingly simple green neighbors utilize their genetic complexity to sense and survive adversity. ” more
Design of life: Why can’t most life forms digest wood?
| July 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, Plants |
“In fact, the only organisms known to break it down require energy to do so.” more
Tree of life a mess for plants too?
| June 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Plants |
Here’s Nova’s accidental take on the problem (April 17, 2007) more
Yes, some researchers say, plants do talk to each other
| June 25, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Plants |
” … new research, published in the journal Trends in Plant Science, has revealed that plants not only respond to sound, but they also communicate to each other by making “clicking” sounds.” more
Darwinism: Carnivorous plant continues to be smarter than we think
| June 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, Plants |
“researchers have now discovered a new, unique method of capturing insects by the pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis.” more
Plants are not people but maybe they hear things
| June 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Plants |
Wallace, Darwin’s banished co-theorist, was right. more
Fossils of insects pollinating plants from 100 million years ago
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News, Plants |
Given that 80% of today’s flowering plants depend on insect pollination, there must have been a good deal of co-evolution and horizontal gene transfer. more
“Identical sequences of DNA located at completely different places on multiple plant genomes”
| April 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Genomics, News, Plants |
“Although the scientists found identical sequences between plant species, just as they did between animals, they suggested the sequences evolved differently.” more
Darwinism at work: It would be photosynthesis except …
| April 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Plants |
We need the lab notes of the scientists who were doing this on the early Earth. more
Is this a plant version of the Cambrian explosion?
| March 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News, Plants |
“All this demonstrates that the ‘oldest forest’ at Gilboa was a lot more ecologically complex than we had suspected … ” more
Plants’ common ancestor was complex, not simple life form, researchers say
| February 22, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Plants |
Modern findings look more and more like “creationism” all the time. more
Plant evolves a new function? Or was it designed?
| February 8, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, News, Plants |
One way of putting it: The plant enzyme “was evolved” to do both functions at once. more
Captured on film: How plants learn of danger from other plants
| February 8, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Plants |
It’s been known for some years that plants do this, but capturing it on film is quite a coup. more
Every vegan’s nightmare: Those lovely, peacable plants, they don’t really trap and eat worms, do they?
| January 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News, Plants |
“We may be surrounded by many more murderous plants than we think.” more
#5 of 2011 for ID community: Explosive Radiation of Flowering Plants Confirmed.
| January 8, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, Plants |
” … new challenges to Darwin’s theory to explain the origin of flowering plant species over a relatively short geologic time period by incremental transformations.” more
Photosynthesis: “Until a few years ago, it seemed a straightforward piece of chemistry”
| December 7, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Plants |
“This is the first paper showing that coherence affects the probability of transport. ” more
Further to carnivorous plants: Their “flypaper” may prove useful technology
| November 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Biomimicry, Intelligent Design, News, Plants |
Note how this is merely a “bag of tricks.” Would the same people write about the space shuttle that way? more
“Plants are SO just leafy green people!”
| November 24, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Plants |
What’s interesting is the utter confusion between three different concepts: sentience, intelligence, and consciousness. more
Do babies show a sense of altruism – and what does that mean anyway?
| November 20, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mind, News, Plants |
UD News recommends that all studies of “altruism” be treated with caution because the behaviour measured is supposed to be common to humans, insects, and in one study even plants. more