> Why don’t more plants evolve towards the “grass” strategy?
I think the important innovation of grasses was growing like hairs - at the bottom pushing existing structure up instead of growing like "normal" plants - at the tip. Maybe it's hard to evolve that again?
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 9.3 ms ] thread> Why don’t more plants evolve towards the “grass” strategy?
I think the important innovation of grasses was growing like hairs - at the bottom pushing existing structure up instead of growing like "normal" plants - at the tip. Maybe it's hard to evolve that again?