Plant carotenoids: recent advances and future perspectives

T Sun, S Rao, X Zhou, L Li - Molecular Horticulture, 2022‏ - Springer
Carotenoids are isoprenoid metabolites synthesized de novo in all photosynthetic
organisms. Carotenoids are essential for plants with diverse functions in photosynthesis …

Abscisic acid dynamics, signaling, and functions in plants

K Chen, GJ Li, RA Bressan, CP Song… - Journal of integrative …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abscisic acid (ABA) is an important phytohormone regulating plant growth, development,
and stress responses. It has an essential role in multiple physiological processes of plants …

Signaling mechanisms in abscisic acid‐mediated stomatal closure

PK Hsu, G Dubeaux, Y Takahashi… - The Plant …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays a central role in the regulation of stomatal
movements under water‐deficit conditions. The identification of ABA receptors and the ABA …

Genomes of multicellular algal sisters to land plants illuminate signaling network evolution

X Feng, J Zheng, I Irisarri, H Yu, B Zheng, Z Ali… - Nature Genetics, 2024‏ - nature.com
Zygnematophyceae are the algal sisters of land plants. Here we sequenced four genomes of
filamentous Zygnematophyceae, including chromosome-scale assemblies for three strains …

The Chara genome: secondary complexity and implications for plant terrestrialization

T Nishiyama, H Sakayama, J De Vries, H Buschmann… - Cell, 2018‏ - cell.com
Land plants evolved from charophytic algae, among which Charophyceae possess the most
complex body plans. We present the genome of Chara braunii; comparison of the genome to …

Genomes of subaerial Zygnematophyceae provide insights into land plant evolution

S Cheng, W **an, Y Fu, B Marin, J Keller, T Wu, W Sun… - Cell, 2019‏ - cell.com
The transition to a terrestrial environment, termed terrestrialization, is generally regarded as
a pivotal event in the evolution and diversification of the land plant flora that changed the …

The origin of a land flora

JL Bowman - Nature Plants, 2022‏ - nature.com
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 renaissance and enlightenment of Marchantia as a model system

JL Bowman, M Arteaga-Vazquez, F Berger… - The Plant …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has been utilized as a model for biological studies
since the 18th century. In the past few decades, there has been a Renaissance in its …

[HTML][HTML] The Penium margaritaceum genome: hallmarks of the origins of land plants

C Jiao, I Sørensen, X Sun, H Sun, H Behar, S Alseekh… - Cell, 2020‏ - cell.com
The evolutionary features and molecular innovations that enabled plants to first colonize
land are not well understood. Here, insights are provided through our report of the genome …

Environmental gradients reveal stress hubs pre-dating plant terrestrialization

A Dadras, JMR Fürst-Jansen, T Darienko, D Krone… - Nature Plants, 2023‏ - nature.com
Plant terrestrialization brought forth the land plants (embryophytes). Embryophytes account
for most of the biomass on land and evolved from streptophyte algae in a singular event …