Heidelberg researchers investigate how the spoonweed genus successfully adapted to extreme climatic changes over millions of years
As cold relics in an increasingly warming world, plants of the spoonweed group time and again quickly adapted to a changing climate during the Ice Ages of the last two million years. An international team of evolutionary biologists and botanists led by Marcus Koch of Heidelberg University used genomic analyses to study what factors favour adaptation to extreme climatic conditions. ...
