Background The terrestrial habitat was colonized by the ancestors of modern land plants
about 500 to 470 million years ago. Today it is widely accepted that land plants …

The phylogenetic branching order of the green algal groups that gave rise to land plants
remains uncertain despite its fundamental importance to understanding plant evolution …

Background Land plants (embryophytes) evolved from streptophyte green algae, a small
group of freshwater algae ranging from scaly, unicellular flagellates (Mesostigma) to …

The phylum Streptophyta comprises all land plants and six monophyletic groups of
charophycean green algae. Which of these charophycean groups is the most closely related …

The charophyte algae are six distinct groups of mostly freshwater green algae that are
related to modern land plants. Charophyte algae exhibit diverse morphologies and …

Abstract Background The Viridiplantae comprise two major phyla: the Streptophyta,
containing the charophycean green algae and all land plants, and the Chlorophyta …

Life on Earth as we know it would not be possible without the evolution of plants, and without
the transition of plants to live on land. Land plants (also known as embryophytes) are a …

The green lineage (Viridiplantae) comprises the green algae and their descendants the land
plants, and is one of the major groups of oxygenic photosynthetic eukaryotes. Current …

The green plants (Viridiplantae) are an ancient group of eukaryotes comprising two main
clades: the Chlorophyta, which includes a wide diversity of green algae and the …

The green algae and land plants form a monophyletic lineage (the chlorophytes) that
contains both protistan and higher taxa (Graham, 1996). An important issue regarding the …