Posted by: Sandy Steinman | September 6, 2026

Plants may be evolving the wrong traits for a warming world | ScienceDaily

ScienceDaily reported

Morning glories may be getting caught in an evolutionary tug-of-war between surviving climate change and attracting increasingly scarce pollinators. Over just nine years, researchers found that the plants’ rate of adaptation plunged by 96%, even though they still had plenty of genetic diversity to evolve.

Read on www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260901010719.htm


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