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 …

Third-generation long-read sequencing is transforming plant genomics. Oxford Nanopore
Technologies and Pacific Biosciences are offering competing long-read sequencing …

Peatlands are crucial sinks for atmospheric carbon but are critically threatened due to
warming climates. Sphagnum (peat moss) species are keystone members of peatland …

Many organisms have sex chromosomes with large nonrecombining regions that have
expanded stepwise, generating “evolutionary strata” of differentiation. The reasons for this …

The model plant Physcomitrium patens has played a pivotal role in enhancing our
comprehension of plant evolution and development. However, the current genome harbours …

Current theory proposes that degenerated sex chromosomes—such as the mammalian Y—
evolve through three steps:(i) recombination arrest, linking male-beneficial alleles to the Y …

Liverworts comprise one of six primary land plant lineages, with the predicted origin of extant
liverwort diversity dating to the Silurian. The ancestral liverwort has been inferred to have …

Hornworts, one of the three bryophyte phyla, show some of the deepest divergences in
extant land plants, with some families separated by more than 300 million years. Previous …

Sex determination is a central process for sexual reproduction and is often regulated by a
sex determinant encoded on a sex chromosome. Rules that govern the evolution of sex …

The Closterium peracerosum–strigosum–littorale complex (Closterium, Zygnematophyceae)
has an isogamous mating system. Members of the Zygnematophyceae are the closest …