Molecular Genetic Tools and Techniques for Marchantia polymorpha Research

K Ishizaki, R Nishihama, KT Yamato… - Plant and Cell …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Liverworts occupy a basal position in the evolution of land plants, and are a key group to
address a wide variety of questions in plant biology. Marchantia polymorpha is a common …

Development and genetics in the evolution of land plant body plans

C Jill Harrison - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The colonization of land by plants shaped the terrestrial biosphere, the geosphere and
global climates. The nature of morphological and molecular innovation driving land plant …

The timescale of early land plant evolution

JL Morris, MN Puttick, JW Clark… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Establishing the timescale of early land plant evolution is essential for testing hypotheses on
the coevolution of land plants and Earth's System. The sparseness of early land plant …

[HTML][HTML] The interrelationships of land plants and the nature of the ancestral embryophyte

MN Puttick, JL Morris, TA Williams, CJ Cox, D Edwards… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
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 …

Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants

NJ Wickett, S Mirarab, N Nguyen… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Reconstructing the origin and evolution of land plants and their algal relatives is a
fundamental problem in plant phylogenetics, and is essential for understanding how critical …

Plastid phylogenomic analysis of green plants: a billion years of evolutionary history

MA Gitzendanner, PS Soltis, GKS Wong… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study For the past one billion years, green plants (Viridiplantae) have
dominated global ecosystems, yet many key branches in their evolutionary history remain …

[HTML][HTML] Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes

Y Liu, MG Johnson, CJ Cox, R Medina, N Devos… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Mosses are a highly diverse lineage of land plants, whose diversification, spanning at least
400 million years, remains phylogenetically ambiguous due to the lack of fossils, massive …

Quartet sampling distinguishes lack of support from conflicting support in the green plant tree of life

JB Pease, JW Brown, JF Walker… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Phylogenetic support has been difficult to evaluate within the green
plant tree of life partly due to a lack of specificity between conflicted versus poorly informed …

A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic

P Kenrick, CH Wellman… - … Transactions of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The geochemical carbon cycle is strongly influenced by life on land, principally through the
effects of carbon sequestration and the weathering of calcium and magnesium silicates in …

[HTML][HTML] Phytochrome diversity in green plants and the origin of canonical plant phytochromes

FW Li, M Melkonian, CJ Rothfels, JC Villarreal… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Phytochromes are red/far-red photoreceptors that play essential roles in diverse plant
morphogenetic and physiological responses to light. Despite their functional significance …