Hybridization has long been recognized as a fundamental evolutionary process in plants
but, until recently, our understanding of its phylogenetic distribution and biological …

Gene body methylation (gbM) is a widely conserved epigenetic feature of plant genomes.
Efforts to delineate the mechanisms by which gbM contributes to transcriptional regulation …

Plant terrestrialization brought forth the land plants (embryophytes). Embryophytes account
for most of the biomass on land and evolved from streptophyte algae in a singular event …

Homosporous lycophytes (Lycopodiaceae) are a deeply diverged lineage in the plant tree of
life, having split from heterosporous lycophytes (Selaginella and Isoetes)~ 400 Mya …

Improvements in long read DNA sequencing and related techniques facilitated the
generation of complex eukaryotic genomes. Despite these advances, the quality of …

The filamentous and unicellular algae of the class Zygnematophyceae are the closest algal
relatives of land plants. Inferring the properties of the last common ancestor shared by these …

The naturally occurring bisexual cone of gymnosperms has long been considered a
possible intermediate stage in the origin of flowers, but the mechanisms governing bisexual …

The evolution of roots allowed vascular plants to adapt to land environments. Fossil
evidence indicates that roots evolved independently in euphyllophytes (ferns and seed …

The contrasting genome size between homosporous and heterosporous plants is
fascinating. Different from the heterosporous seed plants and mainly homosporous ferns, the …

Aluminum-activated malate transporters (ALMTs) and slow anion channels (SLACs) are
important in various physiological processes in plants, including stomatal regulation, nutrient …