The origin of a land flora fundamentally shifted the course of evolution of life on earth,
facilitating terrestrialization of other eukaryotic lineages and altering the planet's geology …

The acquisition of stomata is one of the key innovations that led to the colonisation of the
terrestrial environment by the earliest land plants. However, our understanding of the origin …

Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species
and possibly several million more yet unnamed. Recent phylogenomic studies have arrived …

How horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has contributed to the evolution of animals and plants
remains a major puzzle. Despite recent progress, defining the overall scale and pattern of …

The origin of plants and their colonization of land fundamentally transformed the terrestrial
environment. Here we elucidate the basis of this formative episode in Earth history through …

In angiosperms, a negative feedback pathway involving CLAVATA3 (CLV3) peptide and
WUSCHEL transcription factor maintains the stem-cell population in the shoot apical …

The earliest evidence for land plants comes from dispersed cryptospores from the
Ordovician, which dominated assemblages for 60 million years. Direct evidence of their …

The evolution of transporting tissues was an important innovation in terrestrial plants that
allowed them to adapt to almost all nonaquatic environments. These tissues consist of water …

During the mid-Palaeozoic, vascular land plants (ie, tracheophytes) underwent a great
radiation that triggered the development of the land biosphere–the so-called Silurian …

Charophytes (Streptophyta) represent a diverse assemblage of extant green algae that are
the sister lineage to land plants. About 500–600+ million years ago, a charophyte progenitor …