Since the discovery two decades ago that transgenes are efficiently integrated into the
genome of Physcomitrella patens by homologous recombination, this moss has been a …

Natural products from plants have served mankind in a wide range of applications, such as
medicines, perfumes, or flavoring agents. For this reason, synthesis, regulation and function …

Gene functional descriptions offer a crucial line of evidence for candidate genes underlying
trait variation. Conversely, plant responses to environmental cues represent important …

Nonrecombining sex chromosomes, like the mammalian Y, often lose genes and
accumulate transposable elements, a process termed degeneration. The correlation …

Rapid advances in DNA synthesis techniques have enabled the assembly and engineering
of viral and microbial genomes, presenting new opportunities for synthetic genomics in …

Much of what we know about eukaryotic transcription stems from animals and yeast;
however, plants evolved separately for over a billion years, leaving ample time for …

The plant phenylpropanoid pathway generates a major class of specialized metabolites and
precursors of essential extracellular polymers that initially appeared upon plant …

Seeds were a key evolutionary innovation. These durable structures provide a concerted
solution to two challenges on land: dispersal and stress. Lipid droplets (LDs) that act as …

Physcomitrella patens is a bryophyte model plant that is often used to study plant evolution
and development. Its resources are of great importance for comparative genomics and evo …

The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha is equipped with a wide range of molecular and
genetic tools and resources that have led to its wide use to explore the evo-devo aspects of …