Freshwater algae live in water, but lakes, ponds and creeks do dry up from time to the time, forcing them to survive in drier environments like mud where soil bacteria also live.

All land plants originated from a single evolutionary event when freshwater algae got a foothold on land. The group of algae that would later give rise to land plants had already been living in ...

TORONTO — A study of dozens of Canadian lakes suggests global warming is the major driver of surging algae levels, raising ...

Zygnema belongs to Zygnematophyceae, a class of freshwater and semi-terrestrial algae with more than 4,000 described species that have adapted to withstand extreme stressors like UV light, extreme ...

Photosynthesis is a process in plants and algae that has become established and constantly adapted over the last three billion years. In crops, however, researchers assume that it still does not run ...

Early land plants evolved from freshwater algae, fossils reveal The findings close a 25-million year gap between the “molecular clock” and the fossil record of plants Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

Genomes of 'star algae' shed light on origin of plants International research team generates first genomes of complex closest relatives of land plants Date: May 3, 2024 Source: University of ...

Researchers unveil native mass spectrometry to rapidly detect harmful blue-green algae and their toxins in freshwater.

The City of Toledo water intake crib is surrounded by algae, on Aug. 3, 2014, in Lake Erie, about 2.5 miles off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. (Haraz N. Ghanbari/The Associated Press) ...