The “bryophytes” comprise three phyla of plants united by a similar haploid‐dominant life
cycle and unbranched sporophytes bearing one sporangium: the liverworts …

Background Molecular phylogeny has resolved the liverworts as the earliest-divergent clade
of land plants and mosses as the sister group to hornworts plus tracheophytes, with …

Introduction. Following on from work on the European bryophyte Red List, the taxonomically
and nomenclaturally updated spreadsheets used for that project have been expanded into a …

Premise Bryophytes form a major component of terrestrial plant biomass, structuring
ecological communities in all biomes. Our understanding of the evolutionary history of …

Background Next-generation sequencing has provided a wealth of plastid genome
sequence data from an increasingly diverse set of green plants (Viridiplantae). Although …

The names of all mosses published up to the end of August 2011 in the countries of the
Mediterranean basin, the Macaronesian Islands and Bulgaria are compiled in an annotated …

Bryophytes were a pivotal step in land plant evolution, and their significance in the
regulation of ecosystems and the conservation of biodiversity is becoming increasingly …

Unraveling the phylogenetic relationships between the four major lineages of terrestrial
plants (mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and vascular plants) is essential for an understanding …

In this study we present phylogenetic and molecular phylogenetic diversity analyses of moss
taxa from a total of 655 genera of mosses. Three loci were sampled: chloroplast ribosomal …

Background Almost all land plants develop tip-growing filamentous cells at the interface
between the plant and substrate (the soil). Root hairs form on the surface of roots of …