Cryogenian Glacial Habitats as a Plant Terrestrialisation Cradle – The Origin of the Anydrophytes and Zygnematophyceae Split

Protein kinases in plant responses to drought, salt, and cold stress

(2021) Xuexue Chen et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Flourishing in Water: The Early Evolution and Diversification of Plant Receptor‐like Kinases

(2021) Zhen Gong et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Ediacaran algal cysts from the Doushantuo Formation, South China

(2021) Małgorzata Moczydłowska et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Genome-scale phylogenetic analyses confirm Olpidium as the closest living zoosporic fungus to the non-flagellated, terrestrial fungi

(2021) Ying Chang et al.   Scientific Reports

Large-scale phylogenomic analyses reveal the monophyly of bryophytes and Neoproterozoic origin of land plants

(2021) Danyan Su et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cell wall characteristics during sexual reproduction of Mougeotia sp. (Zygnematophyceae) revealed by electron microscopy, glycan microarrays and RAMAN spectroscopy

(2021) Charlotte Permann et al.   PROTOPLASMA

A molecular timescale for eukaryote evolution with implications for the origin of red algal-derived plastids

(2021) Jürgen F. H. Strassert et al.   Nature Communications

Cryogenian Origin and Subsequent Diversification of the Plant Cell-Wall Enzyme XTH Family

(2021) Naoki Shinohara et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Eukaryotic red and green algae populated the tropical ocean 1400 million years ago

(2021) Shuichang Zhang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Unicellular versus Filamentous: The Glacial Alga Ancylonema alaskana comb. et stat. nov. and Its Ecophysiological Relatedness to Ancylonema nordenskioeldii (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta)

(2021) Lenka Procházková et al.   Microorganisms

Induction of Conjugation and Zygospore Cell Wall Characteristics in the Alpine Spirogyra mirabilis (Zygnematophyceae, Charophyta): Advantage under Climate Change Scenarios?

(2021) Charlotte Permann et al.   Plants-Basel

Dynamics of Silurian Plants as Response to Climate Changes

(2021) Josef Pšenička et al.   Life-Basel

The Origin of Land Plants Is Rooted in Two Bursts of Genomic Novelty

(2020) Alexander M.C. Bowles et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Desiccation tolerance in streptophyte algae and the algae to land plant transition: Evolution of LEA and MIP protein families within the Viridiplantae

(2020) Burkhard Becker et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Draparnaldia, a chlorophyte model for comparative analyses of plant terrestrialization

(2020) Lenka Caisová   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Evo-physio: on stress responses and the earliest land plants

(2020) Janine M R Fürst-Jansen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Three-dimensional growth: a developmental innovation that facilitated plant terrestrialization

(2020) Laura A. Moody   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Rapid evolution in plant–microbe interactions – an evolutionary genomics perspective

(2020) Sophie Vries et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How plants sense and respond to stressful environments

(2020) Jasper Lamers et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

How Plants Conquered Land

(2020) Stefan A. Rensing   CELL

The Penium margaritaceum Genome: Hallmarks of the Origins of Land Plants

(2020) Chen Jiao et al.   CELL

On the co‐evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals

(2020) Devon B. Cole et al.   Geobiology

Heat stress response in the closest algal relatives of land plants reveals conserved stress signaling circuits

(2020) Jan Vries et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Phytochrome-dependent Temperature Perception Modulates Isoprenoid Metabolism

(2020) Ricardo E. Bianchetti et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Rolling stones gather moss: movement and longevity of moss balls on an Alaskan glacier

(2020) Scott Hotaling et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Diversity of anthocyanin and proanthocyanin biosynthesis in land plants

(2020) Tomoki Saigo et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

The genome of Prasinoderma coloniale unveils the existence of a third phylum within green plants

(2020) Linzhou Li et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A hole in the nematosphere: tardigrades and rotifers dominate the cryoconite hole environment, whereas nematodes are missing

(2020) K. Zawierucha et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Decoding ABA and osmostress signalling in plants from an evolutionary point of view

(2020) Kenji Komatsu et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Adaptive innovation of green plants by horizontal gene transfer

(2020) Rujia Chen et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Marinoan-aged red beds at Shennongjia, South China: Evidence against global-scale glaciation during the Cryogenian

(2020) Huaqing Bai et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Genome-wide identification and characterization of CKIN/SnRK gene family in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2019) Francisco Colina et al.   Scientific Reports

Fungal evolution: major ecological adaptations and evolutionary transitions

(2019) Miguel A. Naranjo‐Ortiz et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Origin and Evolution of Core Components Responsible for Monitoring Light Environment Changes during Plant Terrestrialization

(2019) Xue Han et al.   Molecular Plant

Accounting for uncertainty in the evolutionary timescale of green plants through clock-partitioning and fossil calibration strategies

(2019) Yuan Nie et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Glacier Algae: A Dark Past and a Darker Future

(2019) Christopher J. Williamson et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Baltica cradle of early land plants? Oldest record of trilete spores and diverse cryptospore assemblages; evidence from Ordovician successions of Sweden

(2019) Claudia V. Rubinstein et al.   GFF

Fungal evolution: diversity, taxonomy and phylogeny of the Fungi

(2019) Miguel A. Naranjo‐Ortiz et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Genomes of Subaerial Zygnematophyceae Provide Insights into Land Plant Evolution

(2019) Shifeng Cheng et al.   CELL

One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants

(2019)   NATURE

Revisiting the Great Ordovician Diversification of land plants: Recent data and perspectives

(2019) Thomas Servais et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

When Unity Is Strength: The Strategies Used by Chlamydomonas to Survive Environmental Stresses

(2019) Félix de Carpentier et al.   Cells

The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte

(2018) Mark N. Puttick et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

OST1‐mediated BTF3L phosphorylation positively regulates CBFs during plant cold responses

(2018) Yanglin Ding et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Putative Late Ordovician land plants

(2018) Mariusz A. Salamon et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Identification of an algal xylan synthase indicates that there is functional orthology between algal and plant cell wall biosynthesis

(2018) Jacob Krüger Jensen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant evolution: landmarks on the path to terrestrial life

(2018) Jan de Vries et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Embryophyte stress signaling evolved in the algal progenitors of land plants

(2018) Jan de Vries et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The timescale of early land plant evolution

(2018) Jennifer L. Morris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular Regulation of CBF Signaling in Cold Acclimation

(2018) Yiting Shi et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Insights into the Evolution of Multicellularity from the Sea Lettuce Genome

(2018) Olivier De Clerck et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reply to Hedges et al.: Accurate timetrees do indeed require accurate calibrations

(2018) Jennifer L. Morris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Accurate timetrees require accurate calibrations

(2018) S. Blair Hedges et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contemporaneous radiations of fungi and plants linked to symbiosis

(2018) François Lutzoni et al.   Nature Communications

How Embryophytic is the Biosynthesis of Phenylpropanoids and their Derivatives in Streptophyte Algae?

(2017) Jan de Vries et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Diversity of organic-walled microfossils from the early Mesoproterozoic Ruyang Group, North China Craton – A window into the early eukaryote evolution

(2017) Heda Agić et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Phototropin perceives temperature based on the lifetime of its photoactivated state

(2017) Yuta Fujii et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited low-salinity habitats

(2017) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cryogenian evolution of stigmasteroid biosynthesis

(2017) Yosuke Hoshino et al.   Science Advances

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

(2017) Paul F. Hoffman et al.   Science Advances

Abiotic Stress Signaling and Responses in Plants

(2016) Jian-Kang Zhu   CELL

A New Rock-Based Definition for the Cryogenian Period (Circa 720-635 Ma)

(2016) Graham A. Shields-Zhou et al.   EPISODES

Cryoconite pans on Snowball Earth: supraglacial oases for Cryogenian eukaryotes?

(2016) P. F. Hoffman   Geobiology

Streptophyte Terrestrialization in Light of Plastid Evolution

(2016) Jan de Vries et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Why Plants Were Terrestrial from the Beginning

(2016) Jesper Harholt et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The Evolution of Cell Division: From Streptophyte Algae to Land Plants

(2016) Henrik Buschmann et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

OST1 Kinase Modulates Freezing Tolerance by Enhancing ICE1 Stability in Arabidopsis

(2015) Yanglin Ding et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Periglacial paleosols and Cryogenian paleoclimate near Adelaide, South Australia

(2015) Gregory J. Retallack et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The origin and evolution of phototropins

(2015) Fay-Wei Li et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Analyses of Charophyte Chloroplast Genomes Help Characterize the Ancestral Chloroplast Genome of Land Plants

(2014) Peter Civáň et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

What animals can live in cryoconite holes? A faunal review

(2014) K. Zawierucha et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras

(2014) Dianne Edwards et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Transcriptomics of Desiccation Tolerance in the Streptophyte Green Alga Klebsormidium Reveal a Land Plant-Like Defense Reaction

(2014) Andreas Holzinger et al.   PLoS One

Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants

(2014) Norman J. Wickett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conflicting Phylogenies for Early Land Plants are Caused by Composition Biases among Synonymous Substitutions

(2014) Cymon J. Cox et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Systemic Cold Stress Adaptation ofChlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2013) Luis Valledor et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Microtubules, signalling and abiotic stress

(2013) Peter Nick   PLANT JOURNAL

Transcriptome Responses to Combinations of Stresses in Arabidopsis

(2013) S. Rasmussen et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A Low Temperature Limit for Life on Earth

(2013) Andrew Clarke et al.   PLoS One

Neoproterozoic glaciations in a revised global palaeogeography from the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Gondwanaland

(2013) Zheng-Xiang Li et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Taxonomy and nomenclature of the Conjugatophyceae (= Zygnematophyceae)

(2013) Michael D. Guiry   ALGAE

Photophysiology and albedo-changing potential of the ice algal community on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet

(2012) Marian L Yallop et al.   ISME Journal

Ediacaran life on land

(2012) Gregory J. Retallack   NATURE

Biological processes on glacier and ice sheet surfaces

(2012) Marek Stibal et al.   Nature Geoscience

Dehydration stress-induced oscillations in LEA protein transcripts involves abscisic acid in the moss, Physcomitrella patens

(2012) Suhas Shinde et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cryogenian glaciations on the southern tropical paleomargin of Laurentia (NE Svalbard and East Greenland), and a primary origin for the upper Russøya (Islay) carbon isotope excursion

(2012) Paul F. Hoffman et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Snow ball earth and the split of Streptophyta and Chlorophyta

(2012) Burkhard Becker   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Origin of land plants: Do conjugating green algae hold the key?

(2011) Sabina Wodniok et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Characterization of an UV- and VIS-absorbing, purpurogallin-derived secondary pigment new to algae and highly abundant in Mesotaenium berggrenii (Zygnematophyceae, Chlorophyta), an extremophyte living on glaciers

(2011) Daniel Remias et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Neoproterozoic loess and limits to snowball Earth

(2011) Gregory J. Retallack   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes

(2011) Paul K. Strother et al.   NATURE

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

(2011) John T. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Integration of low temperature and light signaling during cold acclimation response in Arabidopsis

(2011) R. Catala et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Glaciers and ice sheets as a biome

(2011) Alexandre M. Anesio et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Sedimentation patterns during the Precambrian: A unique record?

(2010) P.K. Bose et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

The Ectocarpus genome and the independent evolution of multicellularity in brown algae

(2010) J. Mark Cock et al.   NATURE

A horizontal gene transfer at the origin of phenylpropanoid metabolism: a key adaptation of plants to land

(2009) Giovanni Emiliani et al.   Biology Direct

Micro- and nano-scale ultrastructure of cell walls in Cryogenian microfossils: revealing their biological affinity

(2009) MAŁGORZATA MOCZYDŁOWSKA et al.   LETHAIA

The late Precambrian greening of the Earth

(2009) L. Paul Knauth et al.   NATURE

Origin and Radiation of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants

(2009) P. Steemans et al.   SCIENCE

GLACIAL ECOSYSTEMS

(2008) Andy Hodson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

The Ediacaran microbiota and the survival of Snowball Earth conditions

(2008) M MOCZYDLOWSKA   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The Elatina glaciation, late Cryogenian (Marinoan Epoch), South Australia: Sedimentary facies and palaeoenvironments

(2008) George E. Williams et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Sediment–moss interactions on a temperate glacier: Falljökull, Iceland

(2008) P.R. Porter et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Glacio-epochs and the supercontinent cycle after ∼3.0 Ga: Tectonic boundary conditions for glaciation

(2007) Nick Eyles   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Organic molecular evidence in the Late Neoproterozoic Tillites for a palaeo-oceanic environment during the snowball Earth era in the Yangtze region, southern China

(2007) T.-G. Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH