There can be no doubt that early land plant evolution transformed the planet but, until
recently, how and when this was achieved was unclear. Coincidence in the first appearance …

The origin of land plants was accompanied by new adaptations to life on land, including the
evolution of stomata—pores on the surface of plants that regulate gas exchange. The genes …

The relationships among the four major embryophyte lineages (mosses, liverworts,
hornworts, vascular plants) and the timing of the origin of land plants are enigmatic problems …

Systematics reconstructs tempo and mode in biological evolution by resolving the
phylogenetic fabric of biodiversity. The staggering duration and complexity of evolution …

Unraveling the phylogenetic relationships between the four major lineages of terrestrial
plants (mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and vascular plants) is essential for an understanding …

Hornworts are crucial to understand the phylogeny of early land plants. The emergence of
'reverse'U‐to‐C RNA editing accompanying the widespread C‐to‐U RNA editing in plant …

Premise Phylogenetic trees of bryophytes provide important evolutionary context for land
plants. However, published inferences of overall embryophyte relationships vary …

Divergence times based on molecular clock analyses often differ from those derived from
total‐evidence dating (TED) approaches. For bryophytes, fossils have been excluded from …

Mosses compose one of the three lineages of bryophytes. Today, about 13,000 species of
mosses are recognized from across the globe, and at least one-third of this diversity …

The origin and early diversification of land plants is one of the major unresolved problems in
evolutionary biology. Occurring nearly half a billion years ago, the transmigration of green …