CANBERRA - Australian researchers have discovered a plant off the country's west coast, which is believed to be the world's largest.
The researchers sought to understand the diversity of seagrass meadows in Shark Bay using genetic tools and were surprised to discover it was one vast organism of the Posidonia australis species.Flinders University ecologist Martin Breed, who is the study's co-author, said the team was bewildered about how the plant is continuing to thrive.
"Plants that don't have sex tend to also have reduced genetic diversity, which they normally need when dealing with environmental change."
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