The early evolution of land plants, from fossils to genomics: a commentary on Lang (1937) ‘On the plant-remains from the Downtonian of England and Wales'

Plant evolution at the interface of paleontology and developmental biology: An organism-centered paradigm

(2014) Gar W. Rothwell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Stomatal differentiation and abnormal stomata in hornworts

(2014) Silvia Pressel et al.   JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY

Three-dimensional visualization of fossil flowers, fruits, seeds, and other plant remains using synchrotron radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy (SRXTM): new insights into Cretaceous plant diversity

(2014) Else Marie Friis et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Paralogous Radiations of PIN Proteins with Multiple Origins of Noncanonical PIN Structure

(2014) Tom Bennett et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras

(2014) Dianne Edwards et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Contribution of NAC Transcription Factors to Plant Adaptation to Land

(2014) B. Xu et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Land plant evolutionary timeline: Gene effects are secondary to fossil constraints in relaxed clock estimation of age and substitution rates

(2013) Susana Magallón et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Contributions to the diversity in cryptogamic covers in the mid-Palaeozoic:Nematothallusrevisited

(2013) Dianne Edwards et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Early evolution of the vascular plant body plan — the missing mechanisms

(2013) Alexandru MF Tomescu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Bacterial epibionts and endolichenic actinobacteria and fungi in the Lower Devonian lichen Chlorolichenomycites salopensis

(2013) Rosmarie Honegger et al.   Fungal Biology

A new view onNematothallus: coralline red algae from the Silurian of Gotland

(2013) MARTIN R. SMITH et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

An ATP Binding Cassette Transporter Is Required for Cuticular Wax Deposition and Desiccation Tolerance in the Moss Physcomitrella patens

(2013) G. J. Buda et al.   PLANT CELL

Recruitment and remodeling of an ancient gene regulatory network during land plant evolution

(2013) Nuno D. Pires et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

KNOX2 Genes Regulate the Haploid-to-Diploid Morphological Transition in Land Plants

(2013) K. Sakakibara et al.   SCIENCE

The origin of the sporophyte shoot in land plants: a bryological perspective

(2012) Roberto Ligrone et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Walkabout on the long branches of plant evolution

(2012) John L Bowman   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

First plants cooled the Ordovician

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

Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic

(2012) P. Kenrick et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Morphological evolution in land plants: new designs with old genes

(2012) N. D. Pires et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fern and Lycophyte Guard Cells Do Not Respond to Endogenous Abscisic Acid

(2012) Scott A.M. McAdam et al.   PLANT CELL

Broad Phylogenomic Sampling and the Sister Lineage of Land Plants

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

Further insights into trilete spore producers from the Early Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland, U.K.

(2012) J.L. Morris et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Contrasting arbuscular mycorrhizal responses of vascular and non-vascular plants to a simulated Palaeozoic CO2 decline

(2012) Katie J. Field et al.   Nature Communications

Bryophyte diversity and evolution: Windows into the early evolution of land plants

(2011) A. Jonathan Shaw et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

A hundred-year-old question: is the moss calyptra covered by a cuticle? A case study of Funaria hygrometrica

(2011) J. M. Budke et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Regulatory Mechanism Controlling Stomatal Behavior Conserved across 400 Million Years of Land Plant Evolution

(2011) Caspar Chater et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Land Plants Acquired Active Stomatal Control Early in Their Evolutionary History

(2011) Elizabeth M. Ruszala et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

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

The function of the RNA-binding protein TEL1 in moss reveals ancient regulatory mechanisms of shoot development

(2011) Julien Vivancos et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Data mining approach identifies research priorities and data requirements for resolving the red algal tree of life

(2010) Heroen Verbruggen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Convergent evolution of shoots in land plants: lack of auxin polar transport in moss shoots

(2010) Tomomichi Fujita et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

A New Definition and a Lectotypification of the Genus Cooksonia Lang 1937

(2010) Paul Gonez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

The invasion of the land by plants: when and where?

(2010) Charles H. Wellman   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

An uncorrelated relaxed-clock analysis suggests an earlier origin for flowering plants

(2010) S. A. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Regulation of stem cell maintenance by the Polycomb protein FIE has been conserved during land plant evolution

(2009) A. Mosquna et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Thalloid carbonaceous incrustations and the asynchronous evolution of embryophyte characters during the Early Paleozoic

(2009) Paul K. Strother   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Carbon isotopes support the presence of extensive land floras pre-dating the origin of vascular plants

(2009) Alexandru M.F. Tomescu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Virtual taphonomy using synchrotron tomographic microscopy reveals cryptic features and internal structure of modern and fossil plants

(2009) S. Y. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A polycomb repressive complex 2 gene regulates apogamy and gives evolutionary insights into early land plant evolution

(2009) Y. Okano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earliest fossil record of bacterial–cyanobacterial mat consortia: the early Silurian Passage Creek biota (440 Ma, Virginia, USA)

(2008) A. M. F. TOMESCU et al.   Geobiology

How green was Cooksonia? The importance of size in understanding the early evolution of physiology in the vascular plant lineage

(2008) C. Kevin Boyce   PALEOBIOLOGY