Ancestral alliances: plant mutualistic symbioses with fungi and bacteria

FM Martin, S Uroz, DG Barker - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND Among the extensive cortège of plant-associated microorganisms (the so-
called plant microbiota), mutualistic fungal and bacterial symbionts are striking examples of …

Freshwater fungal numbers

MS Calabon, KD Hyde, EBG Jones, ZL Luo, W Dong… - Fungal Diversity, 2022‏ - Springer
A comprehensive account of fungal classification from freshwater habitats is outlined and
discussed in the present review based on literature of biodiversity studies and recent …

The timescale of early land plant evolution

JL Morris, MN Puttick, JW Clark… - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - National Acad Sciences
Establishing the timescale of early land plant evolution is essential for testing hypotheses on
the coevolution of land plants and Earth's System. The sparseness of early land plant …

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 …

The interrelationships of land plants and the nature of the ancestral embryophyte

MN Puttick, JL Morris, TA Williams, CJ Cox, D Edwards… - Current Biology, 2018‏ - cell.com
The evolutionary emergence of land plant body plans transformed the planet. However, our
understanding of this formative episode is mired in the uncertainty associated with the …

[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 …

Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen

TM Lenton, TW Dahl, SJ Daines… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - National Acad Sciences
The progressive oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere was pivotal to the evolution of life,
but the puzzle of when and how atmospheric oxygen (O2) first approached modern levels …

The evolutionary origin of a terrestrial flora

CF Delwiche, ED Cooper - Current Biology, 2015‏ - cell.com
Life on Earth as we know it would not be possible without the evolution of plants, and without
the transition of plants to live on land. Land plants (also known as embryophytes) are a …

[كتاب][B] Soils of the past: an introduction to paleopedology

GJ Retallack - 2008‏ - books.google.com
It has been 10 years since publication of the first edition ofSoils of the Past. In that time the
subject of paleopedology hasgrown rapidly, and established itself within the mainstream …

Sensitivity of plants to changing atmospheric CO2 concentration: from the geological past to the next century

PJ Franks, MA Adams, JS Amthor, MM Barbour… - New …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
The rate of CO 2 assimilation by plants is directly influenced by the concentration of CO 2 in
the atmosphere, ca. As an environmental variable, ca also has a unique global and historic …