Contents Summary 1012 I. Introduction 1013 II. The mycorrhizal symbiosis at the dawn and
rise of the land flora 1014 III. From early land plants to early trees: the origin of roots and true …

The colonization of land by plants shaped the terrestrial biosphere, the geosphere and
global climates. The nature of morphological and molecular innovation driving land plant …

The morphology of plant fossils from the Rhynie chert has generated longstanding questions
about vascular plant shoot and leaf evolution, for instance, which morphologies were …

For the past several decades, advances in plant development, physiology, cell biology, and
genetics have relied heavily on the model (or reference) plant Arabidopsis thaliana …

During the past few years several high-quality genomes has been published from
Charophyte algae, bryophytes, lycophytes and ferns. These genomes have not only …

Particle bombardment, or biolistics, has emerged as an excellent alternative approach for
plant genetic transformation which circumvents the limitations of Agrobacterium-mediated …

Plant roots and root systems are indispensable for water and nutrient foraging, and are a
major evolutionary achievement for plants to cope with dry land conditions. The ability of …

Abstract All Evo‐Devo studies rely on representative sampling across the tree of interest to
elucidate evolutionary trajectories through time. In land plants, genetic resources are well …

Lateral root (LR) formation is a postembryonic organogenesis process that is crucial for plant
root system development and adaptation to heterogenous soil environments. Since the early …

Most land plants alternate between generations of sexual gametophytes and asexual
sporophytes. Unlike seed plants, fern gametophytes are free living and grow independently …