When plants 'think' alike

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Mon, 05/26/2008 - 23:00

(National Science Foundation) Biologists have discovered that a fundamental building block in the cells of flowering plants evolved independently, yet almost identically, on a separate branch of the evolutionary tree -- in an ancient plant group called lycophytes that originated at least 420 million years ago.

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