Why some grasses evolved a more efficient photosynthesis and others didn't
Monday, December 24, 2012 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
Even on the evolutionary time scale of tens of millions of years there is such a thing as being in the right shape at the right time. An anatomical difference in the ability to seize the moment, according to a study led by Brown University biologists, explains why more species in one broad group, or clade, of grasses evolved a more efficient means of photosynthesis than species in another clade did.