The evolution of land flora transformed the terrestrial environment. Land plants evolved from
an ancestral charophycean alga from which they inherited developmental, biochemical, and …

Bryophytes occupy a basal position in the monophyletic evolution of land plants and have a
life cycle in which the gametophyte generation dominates over the sporophyte generation …

The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has been utilized as a model for biological studies
since the 18th century. In the past few decades, there has been a Renaissance in its …

Phylogenetic relationships among the four major lineages of land plants (liverworts, mosses,
hornworts, and vascular plants) remain vigorously contested; their resolution is essential to …

The evolutionary features and molecular innovations that enabled plants to first colonize
land are not well understood. Here, insights are provided through our report of the genome …

Hornworts, liverworts and mosses are three early diverging clades of land plants, and
together comprise the bryophytes. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of the …

Highlights•Many land plant-like features evolved in freshwater algae.•The cell wall,
alternation of division plane and polyplastidy were probably important for terrestrialization.• …

The evolutionary emergence of land plant body plans transformed the planet. However, our
understanding of this formative episode is mired in the uncertainty associated with the …

The origin of land plants from aquatic ancestors and their subsequent evolutionary radiation
was due to major modifications in an ancestral developmental program allowing for plants of …

The mosses and flowering plants diverged> 400 million years ago. The mosses have
haploid-dominant life cycles, whereas the flowering plants are diploid-dominant. The …