26.07.2011                      24.Tammus, 5771

Evolution:

Gene from wild barley helps explain sea to land evolution

Genetic mutation growing in Judean Desert shows how the transition of aquatic to land plants created life on the terra firma as we know it today.

A genetic mutation in wild barley growing in the Judean Desert – discovered by an international team based on a Haifa University doctoral student’s thesis – has shown how the transition of aquatic to land plants created life on the terra firma as we know it today.
The work by Guoxiong Chen, the Chinese doctoral student working under the supervision of Prof. Eviatar Nevo of Haifa University’s Institute of Evolution in 2000, made the chance discovery….