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

Complete plastid genomes from Ophioglossum californicum, Psilotum nudum, and Equisetum hyemale reveal an ancestral land plant genome structure and resolve the position of Equisetales among monilophytes

(2013) Felix Grewe et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Tracing the Evolution of Streptophyte Algae and Their Mitochondrial Genome

(2013) Monique Turmel et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Reconstruction of the Ancestral Plastid Genome in Geraniaceae Reveals a Correlation between Genome Rearrangements, Repeats, and Nucleotide Substitution Rates

(2013) Mao-Lun Weng et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Disproportional Plastome-Wide Increase of Substitution Rates and Relaxed Purifying Selection in Genes of Carnivorous Lentibulariaceae

(2013) Susann Wicke et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A 20-state empirical amino-acid substitution model for green plant chloroplasts

(2013) Cymon J. Cox et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Mechanisms of Functional and Physical Genome Reduction in Photosynthetic and Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic Plants of the Broomrape Family

(2013) S. Wicke et al.   PLANT CELL

PRICE: Software for the Targeted Assembly of Components of (Meta) Genomic Sequence Data

(2013) J. Graham Ruby et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Phylogeny and Molecular Evolution of the Green Algae

(2012) Frederik Leliaert et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES

Origin of land plants revisited in the light of sequence contamination and missing data

(2012) Simon Laurin-Lemay et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

First plants cooled the Ordovician

(2012) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Broad Phylogenomic Sampling and the Sister Lineage of Land Plants

(2012) Ruth E. Timme et al.   PLoS One

Inferring the higher-order phylogeny of mosses (Bryophyta) and relatives using a large, multigene plastid data set

(2011) Y. Chang et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Mitochondrial tRNA Import and Its Consequences for Mitochondrial Translation

(2011) André Schneider   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Genome Rearrangements in Maize Induced by Alternative Transposition of ReversedAc/DsTermini

(2011) Chuanhe Yu et al.   GENETICS

The Role of Reverse Transcriptase in Intron Gain and Loss Mechanisms

(2011) Noa E. Cohen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Chloroplast genomes of photosynthetic eukaryotes

(2011) Beverley R. Green   PLANT JOURNAL

The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function

(2011) Susann Wicke et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Complete plastome sequences of Equisetum arvense and Isoetes flaccida: implications for phylogeny and plastid genome evolution of early land plant lineages

(2010) Kenneth G Karol et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Uncovering the evolutionary origin of plant molecular processes: comparison of Coleochaete (Coleochaetales) and Spirogyra (Zygnematales) transcriptomes

(2010) Ruth E Timme et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

RecA maintains the integrity of chloroplast DNA molecules in Arabidopsis

(2010) Beth A. Rowan et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY AND REVISION OF THE GENUSNETRIUM(ZYGNEMATOPHYCEAE, STREPTOPHYTA):NUCLEOTAENIUMGEN. NOV.

(2010) Andrey A. Gontcharov et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Extreme Reconfiguration of Plastid Genomes in the Angiosperm Family Geraniaceae: Rearrangements, Repeats, and Codon Usage

(2010) M. M. Guisinger et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Early Middle Ordovician evidence for land plants in Argentina (eastern Gondwana)

(2010) C. V. Rubinstein et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Recombination and the maintenance of plant organelle genome stability

(2010) Alexandre Maréchal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Unraveling the Evolution of Auxin Signaling

(2010) I. De Smet et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Noncoding RNA Mediated Traffic of Foreign mRNA into Chloroplasts Reveals a Novel Signaling Mechanism in Plants

(2010) Gustavo Gómez et al.   PLoS One

Plastid genome sequencing, comparative genomics, and phylogenomics: Current status and prospects

(2010) Lei GAO et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Retroelements and their impact on genome evolution and functioning

(2009) Elena Gogvadze et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

The Earliest Land Plants

(2008) Patricia G. Gensel   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga Oedogonium cardiacum (Chlorophyceae): Unique genome architecture, derived characters shared with the Chaetophorales and novel genes acquired through horizontal transfer

(2008) Jean-Simon Brouard et al.   BMC GENOMICS

From chloroplasts to “cryptic” plastids: evolution of plastid genomes in parasitic plants

(2008) Kirsten Krause   CURRENT GENETICS

Extensive Rearrangements in the Chloroplast Genome of Trachelium caeruleum Are Associated with Repeats and tRNA Genes

(2008) Rosemarie C. Haberle et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

DEEP DIVISION IN THE CHLOROPHYCEAE (CHLOROPHYTA) REVEALED BY CHLOROPLAST PHYLOGENOMIC ANALYSES

(2008) Monique Turmel et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Complete plastid genome sequence of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and the phylogenetic distribution of rps12 and clpP intron losses among legumes (Leguminosae)

(2008) Robert K. Jansen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION