Plant evolution driven by interactions with symbiotic and pathogenic microbes

PM Delaux, S Schornack - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Microbial interactions have shaped plant diversity in terrestrial ecosystems.
By forming mutually beneficial symbioses, microbes helped plants colonize land more than …

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 …

Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles

C Cai, E Tihelka, M Giacomelli… - Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species
and possibly several million more yet unnamed. Recent phylogenomic studies have arrived …

One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Green plants (Viridiplantae) include around 450,000–500,000 species, of great diversity and
have important roles in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Here, as part of the One …

Anthoceros genomes illuminate the origin of land plants and the unique biology of hornworts

FW Li, T Nishiyama, M Waller, E Frangedakis, J Keller… - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Hornworts comprise a bryophyte lineage that diverged from other extant land plants> 400
million years ago and bears unique biological features, including a distinct sporophyte …

Chloranthus genome provides insights into the early diversification of angiosperms

X Guo, D Fang, SK Sahu, S Yang, X Guang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chloranthales remain the last major mesangiosperm lineage without a nuclear genome
assembly. We therefore assemble a high-quality chromosome-level genome of Chloranthus …

The hornwort genome and early land plant evolution

J Zhang, XX Fu, RQ Li, X Zhao, Y Liu, MH Li… - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Hornworts, liverworts and mosses are three early diverging clades of land plants, and
together comprise the bryophytes. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of the …

Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants

BJ Harris, JW Clark, D Schrempf, GJ Szöllősi… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of plants and their colonization of land fundamentally transformed the terrestrial
environment. Here we elucidate the basis of this formative episode in Earth history through …

Major episodes of horizontal gene transfer drove the evolution of land plants

J Ma, S Wang, X Zhu, G Sun, G Chang, L Li, X Hu… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
How horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has contributed to the evolution of animals and plants
remains a major puzzle. Despite recent progress, defining the overall scale and pattern of …

[HTML][HTML] The evolutionary emergence of land plants

PCJ Donoghue, CJ Harrison, J Paps, H Schneider - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
There can be no doubt that early land plant evolution transformed the planet but, until
recently, how and when this was achieved was unclear. Coincidence in the first appearance …