New scanning technology gives scientists an extraordinary view inside the cells of what may be 1.6 billion-year-old red algae, the oldest plant-like fossils ever found.

Is this the oldest plant on Earth? Discovery of 1.6 BILLION-year-old algae pushes evolution of complex life back 400 million years. Two fossils of red algae were found preserved in rocks in ...

Grafting Rhodobacter sphaeroides with red algae Rubisco to accelerate catalysis and plant growth. Nat Plants. 2023;9(6):978-986. doi: 10.1038/s41477-023-01436-7. This article has been republished from ...

A Cornell researcher and her colleagues have solved one key piece of the molecular puzzle needed to dramatically improve plant productivity and increase carbon sequestration: They have successfully ...

Sea grasses are the only flowering plants that grow in marine environments ... observed something similar happening among the red algae she was studying. The spermatia, in green, are observed ...

The new research suggests that the important and previously unknown relationships between animals and aquatic plants and algae could make them more vulnerable. In the case of red algae ...

Both the red algae and crustaceans belong to far more ancient groups than land plants do, raising the possibility that a form of pollination first evolved in the ocean, hundreds of millions of ...

Led by Franco-Tunisian company Selt Marine, the project involves turning the algae into plant-based gelatine, offering a sustainable alternative for the global food industry. It took three decades ...