Algae living inside fungi: How land plants first evolved

Scientists think that green algae are plants water-living ancestors, but we are not sure how the transition to land plants happened.Credit: Michigan State UniversityNew research from Michigan State University, and published in the journal eLife, presents evidence that algae could have piggybacked on fungi to leave the water and to colonize the land, over 500 million years ago."Fungi are found all over the planet. They create...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, o