Matter: Plants That Practice Genetic Engineering

Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 14:50 in Biology & Nature

Long ago, a new paper suggests, a fern took a useful gene from a neighboring hornwort, an acquisition that allowed ferns to thrive in shade.

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