Kelp leaves green party, establish separate kingdoms

Deep Green, also known as the Green Plant Phylogeny Research Coordination Group, has spent the past 5 years reconstructing the evolutionary relationship among plants. DNA analysis of plants revealed that they consist of 4 separate lineages--green plants, brown plants, red plants, and fungi, with fungi more closely related to animals than to plants.

Under this study, brown plants and red plants are now each in their own kingdom. Green kelp stays with the green plants. Brown plants consist mostly of brown kelp. Red plants are also mostly kelp.

For more information, see
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/
DeepGreen/DeepGreen.html.