Bryophyte diversity and evolution: windows into the early evolution of land plants

AJ Shaw, P Szövényi, B Shaw - American journal of botany, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
The “bryophytes” comprise three phyla of plants united by a similar haploid‐dominant life
cycle and unbranched sporophytes bearing one sporangium: the liverworts …

Major transitions in the evolution of early land plants: a bryological perspective

R Ligrone, JG Duckett, KS Renzaglia - Annals of botany, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
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 …

Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of bryophytes reveals deep relationships and uncovers gene incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification

J Bechteler, G Peñaloza‐Bojacá, D Bell… - American Journal of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Premise Bryophytes form a major component of terrestrial plant biomass, structuring
ecological communities in all biomes. Our understanding of the evolutionary history of …

[كتاب][B] Introduction to bryophytes

A Vanderpoorten, B Goffinet - 2009‏ - books.google.com
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 …

Phylogeny and classification of the Marchantiophyta

B Crandall-Stotler, RE Stotler… - Edinburgh journal of …, 2009‏ - cambridge.org
Input from molecular phylogenetics in the past five years has substantially altered concepts
of systematic relationships among liverworts. While these studies have confirmed the …

First evidence of mutualism between ancient plant lineages (H aplomitriopsida liverworts) and M ucoromycotina fungi and its response to simulated P alaeozoic …

KJ Field, WR Rimington, MI Bidartondo… - New …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
The discovery that M ucoromycotina, an ancient and partially saprotrophic fungal lineage,
associates with the basal liverwort lineage H aplomitriopsida casts doubt on the widely held …

[HTML][HTML] A hypothesis on the identification of the editing enzyme in plant organelles

V Salone, M Rüdinger, M Polsakiewicz, B Hoffmann… - FEBS letters, 2007‏ - Elsevier
RNA editing in plant organelles is an enigmatic process leading to conversion of cytidines
into uridines. Editing specificity is determined by proteins; both those known so far are …

Unraveling the evolutionary history of the liverworts (Marchantiophyta): multiple taxa, genomes and analyses

LL Forrest, EC Davis, DG Long, BJ Crandall-Stotler… - The bryologist, 2006‏ - BioOne
Nucleotide sequence data from three chloroplast genes (rbc L, rps 4 and psb A), one
nuclear gene (the ribosomal LSU) and one mitochondrial gene (nad 5) were assembled for …

The nature and distribution of vegetative desiccation-tolerance in hornworts, liverworts and mosses

AJ Wood - The Bryologist, 2007‏ - BioOne
Desiccation-tolerance is the unique ability to revive from the air-dried state. In this review, I
summarize the distribution of vegetative desiccation-tolerance within the land plants …

A nonflowering land plant phylogeny inferred from nucleotide sequences of seven chloroplast, mitochondrial, and nuclear genes

YL Qiu, L Li, B Wang, Z Chen… - … journal of plant …, 2007‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Nucleotide sequences of seven chloroplast (atpB and rbcL, SSU and LSU rDNAs),
mitochondrial (atp1, LSU rDNA), and nuclear (18S rDNA) genes from 192 land plants and …