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The EVO team from Laboratoire de recherche en sciences végétales (LRSV - CNRS/Toulouse INP/Université de Toulouse) in Toulouse has just unveiled an unsuspected mechanism in plant evolution. A relatively unstudied plant specie, Marchantia polymorpha, carries in its genetic heritage traces of an exchange with fungi that would have occurred half a billion years ago. The study, published on February 17 in Nature Genetics, points out that this gene transfer is at the origin of the colonization of emerged lands by the plant kingdom.