Green land: Multiple perspectives on green algal evolution and the earliest land plants

Diminished Auxin Signaling Triggers Cellular Reprogramming by Inducing a Regeneration Factor in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

(2022) Sakiko Ishida et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Photophysiological investigations of the temperature stress responses of Zygnema spp (Zygnematophyceae) from subpolar and polar habitats (Iceland, Svalbard)

(2022) Charlotte Permann et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

A palynological assemblage from the Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of Shandong Province, China, and its implications to the transition from algae to land plants

(2022) Kai Wang et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Crossroads in the evolution of plant specialized metabolism

(2022) Tim P. Rieseberg et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The origin and evolution of stomata

(2022) James W. Clark et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The GENOMES UNCOUPLED1 protein has an ancient, highly conserved role but not in retrograde signalling

(2022) Suvi Honkanen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Deep origin and gradual evolution of transporting tissues: Perspectives from across the land plants

(2022) Sjoerd Woudenberg et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A phylogenomically informed five-order system for the closest relatives of land plants

(2022) Sebastian Hess et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants

(2022) Brogan J. Harris et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Plant evolution driven by interactions with symbiotic and pathogenic microbes

(2021) Pierre-Marc Delaux et al.   SCIENCE

The evolution of the phenylpropanoid pathway entailed pronounced radiations and divergences of enzyme families

(2021) Sophie Vries et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

A fossil record of land plant origins from charophyte algae

(2021) Paul K. Strother et al.   SCIENCE

Gamete expression of TALE class HD genes activates the diploid sporophyte program in Marchantia polymorpha

(2021) Tom Dierschke et al.   eLife

Unexpected cryptic species among streptophyte algae most distant to land plants

(2021) Iker Irisarri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Deep evolutionary origin of gamete-directed zygote activation by KNOX/BELL transcription factors in green plants

(2021) Tetsuya Hisanaga et al.   eLife

Sunscreen Effect Exerted by Secondary Carotenoids and Mycosporine-like Amino Acids in the Aeroterrestrial Chlorophyte Coelastrella rubescens under High Light and UV-A Irradiation

(2021) Anna Zaytseva et al.   Plants-Basel

Plant Evolution: Assembling Land Plants

(2020) Philip Donoghue 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

Neoproterozoic origin and multiple transitions to macroscopic growth in green seaweeds

(2020) Andrea Del Cortona et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte

(2020) Qing Tang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

(2020) Chen Jiao et al.   CELL

Formally described species woefully underrepresent phylogenetic diversity in the common lichen photobiont genus Trebouxia (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta): An impetus for developing an integrated taxonomy

(2020) Lucia Muggia et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Induction of Multichotomous Branching by CLAVATA Peptide in Marchantia polymorpha

(2020) Yuki Hirakawa et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

GUN1 interacts with MORF2 to regulate plastid RNA editing during retrograde signaling

(2019) Xiaobo Zhao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conserved Biochemical Defenses Underpin Host Responses to Oomycete Infection in an Early-Divergent Land Plant Lineage

(2019) Philip Carella et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Minimal Auxin Sensing Levels In Vegetative Moss Stem Cells Revealed By A Ratiometric Reporter

(2019) Mattias Thelander et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

A ligand-independent origin of abscisic acid perception

(2019) Yufei Sun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The water lily genome and the early evolution of flowering plants

(2019) Liangsheng Zhang et al.   NATURE

Plastid phylogenomic analysis of green plants: A billion years of evolutionary history

(2018) Matthew A. Gitzendanner et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The Chara Genome: Secondary Complexity and Implications for Plant Terrestrialization

(2018) Tomoaki Nishiyama et al.   CELL

CLAVATA Was a Genetic Novelty for the Morphological Innovation of 3D Growth in Land Plants

(2018) Chris D. Whitewoods et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

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

Great moments in evolution: the conquest of land by plants

(2018) Stefan A Rensing   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Class C ARFs evolved before the origin of land plants and antagonize differentiation and developmental transitions in Marchantia polymorpha

(2018) Eduardo Flores-Sandoval et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Genetic analysis of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha reveals that R2R3MYB activation of flavonoid production in response to abiotic stress is an ancient character in land plants

(2018) Nick W. Albert 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

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Taxa of Streptophyte Algae (Streptophyta) from Terrestrial Habitats Revealed Using an Integrative Approach

(2018) Tatiana Mikhailyuk et al.   PROTIST

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

Comprehensive Genome-Wide Classification Reveals That Many Plant-Specific Transcription Factors Evolved in Streptophyte Algae

(2017) Per K I Wilhelmsson et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Ordovician spore ‘thalli’ and the evolution of the plant sporophyte

(2017) Paul K. Strother et al.   PALYNOLOGY

Enhanced Desiccation Tolerance in Mature Cultures of the Streptophytic Green Alga Zygnema circumcarinatum Revealed by Transcriptomics

(2017) Martin Rippin et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

Ancestral alliances: Plant mutualistic symbioses with fungi and bacteria

(2017) Francis M. Martin et al.   SCIENCE

A chloroplast retrograde signal, 3’-phosphoadenosine 5’-phosphate, acts as a secondary messenger in abscisic acid signaling in stomatal closure and germination

(2017) Wannarat Pornsiriwong et al.   eLife

Terrestrial diatoms as tracers in catchment hydrology: a review

(2017) Laurent Pfister et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water

Evolution in the Cycles of Life

(2016) John L. Bowman et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Retrograde signaling: Organelles go networking

(2016) Tatjana Kleine et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Life Finds a Way: Novel Algae in Reactor Cooling Ponds

(2016) Richard M. McCourt   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Coccomyxa actinabiotissp. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta), a new green microalga living in the spent fuel cooling pool of a nuclear reactor

(2016) Corinne Rivasseau et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Fast Coalescent-Based Computation of Local Branch Support from Quartet Frequencies

(2016) Erfan Sayyari et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Development and genetics in the evolution of land plant body plans

(2016) C. Jill Harrison   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

New features of desiccation tolerance in the lichen photobiont Trebouxia gelatinosa are revealed by a transcriptomic approach

(2016) Fabio Candotto Carniel et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Systematics and evolutionary significance of some new cryptospores from the Cambrian of eastern Tennessee, USA

(2016) Paul K. Strother   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Streptophyte Terrestrialization in Light of Plastid Evolution

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

Editorial: ROS Regulation during Plant Abiotic Stress Responses

(2016) Zhulong Chan et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Abiotic Stress Tolerance of Charophyte Green Algae: New Challenges for Omics Techniques

(2016) Andreas Holzinger et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Coleochaete and the origin of sporophytes

(2015) David Haig   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Estimating phylogenetic trees from genome-scale data

(2015) Liang Liu et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The Evolutionary Origin of a Terrestrial Flora

(2015) Charles Francis Delwiche et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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'

(2015) Dianne Edwards et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Auxin Produced by the Indole-3-Pyruvic Acid Pathway Regulates Development and Gemmae Dormancy in the LiverwortMarchantia polymorpha

(2015) D. Magnus Eklund et al.   PLANT CELL

Algal ancestor of land plants was preadapted for symbiosis

(2015) Pierre-Marc Delaux et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cryptospores from the Hanadir Shale Member of the Qasim Formation, Ordovician (Darriwilian) of Saudi Arabia: taxonomy and systematics

(2015) Paul K. Strother et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Transcriptional responses of Norway spruce (Picea abies) inner sapwood againstHeterobasidion parviporum

(2015) J. Oliva et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

WOX13-like genes are required for reprogramming of leaf and protoplast cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrella patens

(2014) K. Sakakibara et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras

(2014) Dianne Edwards et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Widespread desert affiliation of trebouxiophycean algae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) including discovery of three new desert genera

(2014) Karolina Fučíková et al.   PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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

Klebsormidium flaccidum genome reveals primary factors for plant terrestrial adaptation

(2014) Koichi Hori et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2013) K. Sakakibara et al.   SCIENCE

Comparison between cryptospores from the Cambrian Log Cabin Member, Pioche Shale, Nevada, USA and similar specimens from the Cambrian Kaili Formation, Guizhou, China

(2013) LeiMing Yin et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Inferring Phylogeny and Introgression using RADseq Data: An Example from Flowering Plants (Pedicularis: Orobanchaceae)

(2013) Deren A. R. Eaton et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Origin of land plants using the multispecies coalescent model

(2013) Bojian Zhong et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Desiccation stress and tolerance in green algae: consequences for ultrastructure, physiological and molecular mechanisms

(2013) Andreas Holzinger et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Phylogeny and Molecular Evolution of the Green Algae

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

AP2-type transcription factors determine stem cell identity in the moss Physcomitrella patens

(2012) T. Aoyama et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

(2012) Sina M. Adl et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution of the ARF Gene Family in Land Plants: Old Domains, New Tricks

(2012) Cédric Finet et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2011) Sabina Wodniok et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolution of Abscisic Acid Synthesis and Signaling Mechanisms

(2011) Felix Hauser et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes

(2011) Paul K. Strother et al.   NATURE

Spores before sporophytes: hypothesizing the origin of sporogenesis at the algal-plant transition

(2011) Roy C. Brown et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

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

Molecular and biochemical aspects of plant terrestrialization

(2011) Pierre-Marc Delaux et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

The charophycean green algae provide insights into the early origins of plant cell walls

(2011) Iben Sørensen et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Abscisic Acid: Emergence of a Core Signaling Network

(2010) Sean R. Cutler et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

The evolution of abscisic acid (ABA) and ABA function in lower plants, fungi and lichen

(2010) Wolfram Hartung   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT CHAROPHYTE (STREPTOPHYTA) LIFE CYCLES?1

(2010) David Haig   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Molecular Basis of the Core Regulatory Network in ABA Responses: Sensing, Signaling and Transport

(2010) T. Umezawa et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Phylogenetic analysis of 83 plastid genes further resolves the early diversification of eudicots

(2010) M. J. Moore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Twenty years on: The inner workings of the shoot apical meristem, a developmental dynamo

(2009) M.K. Barton   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Phenylpropanoid Biosynthesis

(2009) Thomas Vogt   Molecular Plant

The late Precambrian greening of the Earth

(2009) L. Paul Knauth et al.   NATURE

ULTRASTRUCTURE OF ENIGMATIC PHYTOCLASTS (BANDED TUBES) FROM THE SILURIAN-LOWER DEVONIAN: EVIDENCE FOR AFFINITIES AND ROLE IN EARLY TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS

(2009) W. A. TAYLOR et al.   PALAIOS

Protein Phosphatases 2C Regulate the Activation of the Snf1-Related Kinase OST1 by Abscisic Acid in Arabidopsis

(2009) F. Vlad et al.   PLANT CELL

Dehydration rate and time of desiccation affect recovery of the lichenic algae Trebouxia erici: alternative and classical protective mechanisms

(2009) Francisco Gasulla et al.   PLANTA

Type 2C protein phosphatases directly regulate abscisic acid-activated protein kinases in Arabidopsis

(2009) T. Umezawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Activity of guard cell anion channel SLAC1 is controlled by drought-stress signaling kinase-phosphatase pair

(2009) Dietmar Geiger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Abscisic Acid Inhibits Type 2C Protein Phosphatases via the PYR/PYL Family of START Proteins

(2009) S.-Y. Park et al.   SCIENCE

Early Sexual Origins of Homeoprotein Heterodimerization and Evolution of the Plant KNOX/BELL Family

(2008) Jae-Hyeok Lee et al.   CELL

Class 1 KNOX genes are not involved in shoot development in the mossPhyscomitrella patensbut do function in sporophyte development

(2008) Keiko Sakakibara et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Calculating Bootstrap Probabilities of Phylogeny Using Multilocus Sequence Data

(2008) T.-K. Seo   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Ultrastructure of some Cambrian palynomorphs from the Bright Angel Shale, Arizona, USA

(2008) Wilson A. Taylor et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Ultrastructure, morphology, and topology of Cambrian palynomorphs from the Lone Rock Formation, Wisconsin, USA

(2008) Wilson A. Taylor et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY