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STEREOTYPED EMBRYOPHYTES. "This history involved evolutionary modifications in a variety of body features that undoubtedly prefigured to some degree the highly stereotyped embryophyte body plan." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

VASCULAR PLANT RADIATION. "This focus has significantly advanced our understanding of the evolution of the embryophytes, but it has largely ignored a complex antecedent history during which different body plans evolved within and among the genetically distinct but morphologically homoplasic aquatic plant lineages, collectively called the `algae'." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

PLANT BODY PLANS. "In contrast, the evolution of body plans among plants, here defined as photosynthetic eukaryotes, has received comparatively much less attention and has been discussed largely in the context of the radiation of the early vascular land plants and their terrestrial non-vascular predecessors during early Paleozoic times." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

FOCUS ON ANIMAL BODY PLANS. "Much has been written about the initial appearance and subsequent evolution of metazoan body plans, particularly in terms of the great Cambrian `explosion' and the attending evolutionary debut of multicellular animal body plans during a comparatively brief period of time." https://lnkd.in/dqAQfMR View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on the evolution of plant body plans for this and next weekend. Plants can sometimes seem like extraterrestrial creatures. Wrapping ones mind around them is not easy, and biologists have long demonstrated a lack of understanding of these curious beings, which are so much less like vertebrates. How can an advanced creature be both diffuse (plant intelligence) and modular (cut off a bit of a plant and propagate it)? View in LinkedIn

Darwin’s mental rioting in Notebook B. View in LinkedIn

“PROGRAMMABLE PROPERTIES of innate or living things include SGH, ferroelectricity, pyroelectricity, piezoelectricity, and optical activity, and coupling of different streams of energy. And as we have explored before in earlier blogs, also phase changes in intracellular structured water.” https://lnkd.in/d2H77Zq View in LinkedIn

ENERGY COUPLING IS KEY. "Functionality of biological and inorganic systems ranging from non-volatile computer memories and microelectromechanical systems to electromotor proteins and cellular membranes is ultimately based on the intricate coupling between electrical and mechanical phenomena." https://lnkd.in/ehnBzph View in LinkedIn

MIT SELF-ASSEMBLY LAB. “Natural phenomena such as growth, evolution and self-organisation are no longer only studied in design as mere metaphors or digital simulations. Rather, they can now be utilised in physical materials and fabricated systems.” https://lnkd.in/dKGCmuj View in LinkedIn

MECHANICAL CONSTRAINTS. "If it is true that developmental constraints play an important role in plant evolution, then it is equally true that biomechanical relationships have influenced the evolution of body plans at the cell, tissue, organ, and organismic levels of organization." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn