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Ginkgo biloba: A Plant of Jurassic Park
Stories
"O Give ma a home, where the dinosaurs roam"
A special tree
Ginkgo biloba, also known as Maidenhair Tree, has been popular in China and
Korea for millennia. Photographs of live plants and
fossils are almost identical, telling us that Ginkgo
is indeed a Jurassic plant.
Ginkgo has venerable fossil records. The genus Ginkgo, represented today
by the widely-cultivated Chinese species Ginkgo biloba, has an evolutionary lineage that dates back to the Lower Jurassic, about 190 million years
ago. Although this genus has undergone much change over this length of time, fossilized leaf material from the Tertiary species Ginkgo adiantoides
is considered similar or even identical to that produced by modern Ginkgo biloba trees.
The oldest fossils come from a single location in what is now the Asiatic part of the former USSR. During the Middle Jurassic there was a great
increase in ginkgo fossil sites throughout the northern parts of the Laurasian supercontinent. At least two species existed at this time. Maximum
diversity was reached during the Cretaceous with five or six species identified in the Northern Hemisphere. These species are mainly distinguishable
on the basis of leaf anatomy and geographical distribution.
By the Paleocene, diversity in the genus Ginkgo was reduced to a single polymorphic species, often referred to as Ginkgo adiantoides, which produced
leaves virtually indistinguishable from modern-day Ginkgo biloba. This species was mainly distributed in the northern regions due to the tropical
environment at that time. As the Earth's climate cooled during the Oligocene, the species took on a more southerly distribution than it had occupied
previously. In addition, the number of fossil sites decreases sharply. Approximately seven million years ago it disappeared from the fossil record of
North America.
Although Ginkgo adiantoides was particularly abundant in Europe at the start of the Pliocene, it was gone from that region by about 2.5 million years
ago. There are very limited numbers of fossils found from the Pliocene, and for the Pleistocene, no fossils of Ginkgo are known. Scientists thought
that the genus had become extinct, however, through mysterious events, Ginkgo biloba managed to survive in China until modern times. These ginkgoes
were mainly found in monasteries in the mountains, where they were cultivated by Buddhist monks. The ginkgo was brought out of these mountains by
approximately 1100 AD and spread quickly throughout temperate Asia. It was first planted in Europe in the early 1700's and in America later that
century.
Most precise assessment of phylogenetic, evolutionary, and biological relatedness among species can be made using their genetic blueprints, i.e.
DNA sequence data. How much of Ginkgo biloba's genetic material has been sequenced to date?
Almost nill: less than 0.0001% of its genome has been deciphered,
while various genome projects have sequenced the genomes of human, mouse, fruitfly, yeast, worm (nematode), rice, Arabidopsis weed, and more than a
hundred other organisms most of which are microorganisms, almost to entirety. Ginkgo biloba is not just another tree, and the sequence data of its
genome should be highly interesting for biologists and those who care Ginkgo.
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