Fascinating study on thorns/prickles on plants. Why do divergent, separate and distinct plants that are not related have prickles on them? Someone decided to find out. From his research, it looks like a common gene family LONELY GUY (LOG) is responsible for a plant having thorns. #nature #plants #flowers #science https://phys.org/news/2024-08-biologists-ancient-gene-family-responsible.html