#Plant Life on Earth | How ancient #algae inhabited land

Listen as scientists solve a long-running mystery about the first stages of #PlantLife on earth.

A team of researchers from the John Innes Centre, the University of Wisconsin and other international collaborators have discovered how ancient #algae were able to inhabit land before evolving into the world’s first plant and #colonising the earth.

Learn how Dr Delaux and colleagues analysed DNA and RNA of some of the earliest known land plants and green. Their evidence found that their shared algal ancestor living in the earth's waters already possessed a set of genes, or symbiotic pathways, needed to detect and interact with beneficial fungi called arbuscular mycorrhiza.

Explore how the scientists worked with and conducted #fungi, all of their findings, and how they can utilise this research in future endeavours.

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[xyloeiq]

Thanks. I guess since they survived with the help of fungi, doesn't that mean they weren't necessarily the first or only first organisms to thrive on land. We're the fungi there first or did they come together with the algae?

[AppleYou]

I dont know if anyone realizes what the most interesting question would be: how did algae who never met fungi already had the necessary set of genes for this “partnership”?

[CONCERTMANchicago]

What a great time to be alive! Today's golden age of astronomy fueled by modern space and ground telescopes, allowed us to discover...that we do not know what makes up 75% of our universe.

Ironically todays soil ecologists theorize that they have yet to classify 75% of the organisms living in soil.

As an Arborist, my job is learning all about that surface. Where our planet Earth meets the universe!

[zarathustra]

How did plants crawl out of the sea?? By asking fungus for permission

[ShadyOk]

ngl its far too watery down here. Now what if I grow on this wet rock and get sunlight and water constantly? Dang it worked i'm sooo tall.

[rl]

This explains nothing. I learned zilch from this video. All this is is conjecture.. How did he fungi exist at all? They feed on dead or dying matter but if there are no plants or other dead matter about, then how can the fungi survive? It can't feed itself and there is no soil etc And since when have plants ever gone travelling? Plants cannot move themselves, nor can they navigate themselves to shore. They have to be moved by the water waves etc. Then they have to miraculously hit the fungi that somehow miraculously survived and then together they created all plant life on earth? Seriously?

[worthey]

The first GM product..I took a crap, and then there it was.

[mafarmerga]

in the first 11 seconds he makes an error. Land plants almost certainly emerged from freshwater charophyte green algae. They did NOT come out of the ocean.

[christdiedforoursins]

So you believe the fungus did a leap of faith and then eventually became Jesus .

[jamessparkman]

This is where let there be land fits in the the Bible you see before plants came along the seas had to be filled fish and sea sea creatures and amphibians and reptiles appeared and the land was full of many the behemoth with cedar like tails or dinosaurs cam into existence then birds filled the sky then dinosaurs went extinct then mammals filled and apes became Adam and Eve so in shore the story of evolution and creation are one and the same

[cbond]

What a crock. So seaweed washed out of the water & "evolved" into Palm trees, Conifers, tomato plants & giant sequoias? Yeah right.

[sapientemsapientem]

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