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  The study by the University of Bristol and the University of Essex, published in New Phytologist, has important implications in understanding how to plant water transport systems have evolved and how these might adapt in the future in response to climate change. Over the last 500 million years, the evolution of land plants has supported the diversity of life on an increasingly green planet. Throughout their evolution, plants have acquired adaptations such as leaves and roots, allowing them to control water and colonize the land. Some of these ‘tools’ evolved in early land plants as per science and technology news   and today are found in both tiny mosses and giant trees which form complex forest ecosystems. Researchers from Essex’s School of Life Sciences and Bristol’s Schools of Biological Sciences and Geographical Sciences first compared the genes of 532 plant species to investigate the role of new and old genes in the genesis of these adaptations according to science an...