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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE explores for this and next weekend the ancient transition of plants from the water to dry land, and then those that returned to salt water. Those plants that re-adapted to salt water are the focus of this fragment. This is the sister posting to match the one about the return of the whales to the sea a couple of weeks ago. Like the whales, plants returning to the sea had to reinvent solutions to metabolic problems including salt toxicity, low CO2 diffusion rates, and low light levels. View in LinkedIn

SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS. "Except in rare cases, aquatic plants have merely exploited the reproductive features of their terrestrial ancestors by simple modifications." https://lnkd.in/dh26Z3X View in LinkedIn

Overgrowth of marly limestone with the equivalent of stalactite material. View in LinkedIn

MULTIPLE PATHWAYS. "Aquatic plants are an extremely heterogeneous assemblage of species that survive in similar habitats but as a result of fundamentally different evolutionary pathways." https://lnkd.in/dAT9Bid View in LinkedIn

MULTIPLE EVENTS. "The transition to an aquatic life has been achieved by only 2% of the approximately 350,000 angiosperm species. Nevertheless, the evolutionary invasion of aquatic environments by terrestrial angiosperms is estimated to represent 50-100 independent events." https://lnkd.in/dh26Z3X View in LinkedIn