ANBG Friends Plant Science Group Technical Talk

Place: Theatrette, ANBG
Topic: Do plants evolve differently?
Speaker: Dr Rob Lanfear
ANU Research School of Biology Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics

Talk summary:   
It's often assumed that animals and plants evolve differently because animals have a segregated germ line but plants don't.  If this is true, then plants should accumulate a lot of heritable and potentially harmful mutations in their genomes as they grow. Recent work, including from my lab, is now challenging this long-held view, potentially upending a century of thinking.