Environment

Biodiversity The world’s largest plant has recently been discovered off the West Coast of Australia: a seagrass 180 kilometre long.

·       The plant is termed the ribbon weed, or Posidoniaaustralis.

·       The plant is 4,500 years previous, is sterile, has double the quantity of chromosomes than alternative similar plants, and has managed to survive the volatile atmosphere of the shallow Shark Bay, Australia.

·       The ribbon weed covers a region of 20,000 hectares.

·       The second largest plant, is that the clonal colony of a quaking aspen tree in Utah, that covers 43.6 hectares.

·       The biggest tree in India, the good Banyan in Howrah’s botanical garden, covers 1.41 hectares.

·       However did it survive someday within the Harappan era, a plant took root in Shark Bay.

·       Then it unbroken spreading through its rhizomes.

·       The researchers found that the ribbon weed cannot unfold its seeds, one thing that helps plants overcome environmental threats.

·       Additionally as a result of its a polyploidy – rather than taking half-half genome from each folks, it took 100%, one thing not unheard of in plants.

Therefore, this ribbon weed has double the quantity of chromosomes alternative plants of an equivalent selection have.