3D‐reconstructions of zygospores in Zygnema vaginatum (Charophyta) reveal details of cell wall formation, suggesting adaptations to extreme habitats

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

(2022) Charlotte Permann et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

Crossroads in the evolution of plant specialized metabolism

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

Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Response to High Light in the Charophyte Alga Klebsormidium nitens

(2022) Emma Serrano-Pérez et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

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

(2022) Sebastian Hess et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A divergent RWP‐RK transcription factor determines mating type in heterothallic Closterium

(2022) Hiroyuki Sekimoto et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Zygospores of the green alga Spirogyra: new insights from structural and chemical imaging

(2022) Charlotte Permann et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Morphological bases of phytoplankton energy management and physiological responses unveiled by 3D subcellular imaging

(2021) Clarisse Uwizeye et al.   Nature Communications

Characterization of Two Zygnema Strains (Zygnema circumcarinatum SAG 698-1a and SAG 698-1b) and a Rapid Method to Estimate Nuclear Genome Size of Zygnematophycean Green Algae

(2021) Xuehuan Feng et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

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

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

(2021) Sophie Vries et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

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

Search for evolutionary roots of land plant arabinogalactan‐proteins in charophytes: presence of a rhamnogalactan‐protein in Spirogyra pratensis (Zygnematophyceae)

(2021) Lukas Pfeifer et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

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

(2020) Chen Jiao et al.   CELL

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

(2020) Jan Vries et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

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

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

Ties between Stress and Lipid Droplets Pre-date Seeds

(2020) Jan de Vries et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Degradation of Lipid Droplets in Plants and Algae—Right Time, Many Paths, One Goal

(2020) Krzysztof Zienkiewicz et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Chloroplast Degradation: Multiple Routes Into the Vacuole

(2019) Xiaohong Zhuang et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Possible Roles of Membrane Trafficking Components for Lipid Droplet Dynamics in Higher Plants and Green Algae

(2019) Shuxian Huang et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Homogalacturonan Accumulation in Cell Walls of the Green Alga Zygnema sp. (Charophyta) Increases Desiccation Resistance

(2019) Klaus Herburger et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The conjugating green alga Zygnema sp. (Zygnematophyceae) from the Arctic shows high frost tolerance in mature cells (pre-akinetes)

(2019) Kateřina Trumhová et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Identification of 13 Spirogyra species (Zygnemataceae) by traits of sexual reproduction induced under laboratory culture conditions

(2019) Tomoyuki Takano et al.   Scientific Reports

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

Evolutionary and genomic analysis of the caleosin/peroxygenase (CLO/PXG) gene/protein families in the Viridiplantae

(2018) Farzana Rahman et al.   PLoS One

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

Arctic, Antarctic, and temperate green algae Zygnema spp. under UV-B stress: vegetative cells perform better than pre-akinetes

(2018) Andreas Holzinger et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Chloroplast damage induced by the inhibition of fatty acid synthesis triggers autophagy in Chlamydomonas

(2018) Luis Gonzaga Heredia-Martinez et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Evolutionary, structural and functional analysis of the caleosin/peroxygenase gene family in the Fungi

(2018) Farzana Rahman et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Molecular and morphological diversity of Zygnema and Zygnemopsis (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) from Svalbard (High Arctic)

(2018) Martina Pichrtová et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

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

Multilayer gyroid cubic membrane organization in green alga Zygnema

(2017) Ting Zhan et al.   PROTOPLASMA

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Annual development of mat-forming conjugating green algae Zygnema spp. in hydro-terrestrial habitats in the Arctic

(2016) Martina Pichrtová et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Streptophyte Terrestrialization in Light of Plastid Evolution

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

Fatty Acid Trafficking in Starved Cells: Regulation by Lipid Droplet Lipolysis, Autophagy, and Mitochondrial Fusion Dynamics

(2015) Angelika S. Rambold et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Tapetal oleosins play an essential role in tapetosome formation and protein relocation to the pollen coat

(2015) Madeleine Lévesque-Lemay et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Induction of sexual reproduction in Spirogyra clones - does an universal trigger exist?

(2015) Melanie Zwirn et al.   Fottea

Global ubiquity and local endemism of free-living terrestrial protists: phylogeographic assessment of the streptophyte algaKlebsormidium

(2014) David Ryšánek et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Osmotic stress and recovery in field populations ofZygnemasp. (Zygnematophyceae,Streptophyta) on Svalbard (High Arctic) subjected to natural desiccation

(2014) Martina Pichrtová et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Nitrogen Limitation and Slow Drying Induce Desiccation Tolerance in Conjugating Green Algae (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) from Polar Habitats

(2014) Martina Pichrtová et al.   PLoS One

Photosynthetic efficiency, desiccation tolerance and ultrastructure in two phylogenetically distinct strains of alpine Zygnema sp. (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta): role of pre-akinete formation

(2014) K. Herburger et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Olive seed protein bodies store degrading enzymes involved in mobilization of oil bodies

(2013) Agnieszka Zienkiewicz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Streptophyte Algae and the Origin of Land Plants Revisited Using Heterogeneous Models with Three New Algal Chloroplast Genomes

(2013) Bojian Zhong et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Lipid droplet autophagy in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

(2013) Tim van Zutphen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Oleosin of Subcellular Lipid Droplets Evolved in Green Algae

(2013) N.-L. Huang et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Morphology and plastid psbA phylogeny of Zygnema (Zygnemataceae, Chlorophyta) from Korea: Z. insigne and Z. leiospermum

(2013) Jee-Hwan Kim et al.   ALGAE

SYSTEMATICS OF THE GENUS ZYGNEMA (ZYGNEMATOPHYCEAE, CHAROPHYTA) FROM CALIFORNIAN WATERSHEDS1

(2012) Rosalina Stancheva et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Osmotic stress in Arctic and Antarctic strains of the green alga Zygnema (Zygnematales, Streptophyta): Effects on photosynthesis and ultrastructure

(2012) Franziska Kaplan et al.   MICRON

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

(2011) Sabina Wodniok et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Studies on conjugation of Spirogyra using monoclonal culture

(2011) Hisato Ikegaya et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Streptophyte algae and the origin of embryophytes

(2009) Burkhard Becker et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Quantitative electron microscopy shows uniform incorporation of triglycerides into existing lipid droplets

(2009) Jinglei Cheng et al.   HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY

The vegetative arctic freshwater green alga Zygnema is insensitive to experimental UV exposure

(2009) Andreas Holzinger et al.   MICRON

Autophagy regulates lipid metabolism

(2009) Rajat Singh et al.   NATURE

Death of a tapetum: A programme of developmental altruism

(2009) Roger W. Parish et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

PHYLOGENY OF THE CONJUGATING GREEN ALGAE BASED ON CHLOROPLAST AND MITOCHONDRIAL NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DATA

(2008) John D. Hall et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY