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 …

Land plant life cycles are separated into distinct haploid gametophyte and diploid
sporophyte stages. Indeterminate apical growth evolved independently in bryophyte (moss …

High‐throughput RNA sequencing (RNA‐seq) has recently become the method of choice to
define and analyze transcriptomes. For the model moss Physcomitrella patens, although this …

One of the most important events in the history of life on earth was the colonization of land by
plants; this transition coincided with and was most likely enabled by the evolution of 3 …

The colonization of land by plants was one of the most transformative events in the history of
life on Earth. The transition from water, which coincided with and was likely facilitated by the …

The establishment and maintenance of pluripotent stem cells in the shoot apical meristem
(SAM) are key developmental processes in land plants including the most basal, bryophytes …

The aleurone is the outermost layer of cereal endosperm and functions to digest storage
products accumulated in starchy endosperm cells as well as to confer important dietary …

Land plants evolved about 470 million years ago or even earlier, in a biological crust-
dominated terrestrial flora. The origin of land plants was probably one of the most significant …

Phyllotaxis, the geometry of leaf arrangement around stems, determines plant architecture.
Molecular interactions coordinating the formation of phyllotactic patterns have mainly been …

Highlights•3D growth in plants evolved coincident with the colonization of land.•P. patens is
an ideal model organism in which to genetically dissect 3D growth.•2D side branch initials …