The green lineage (Viridiplantae) comprises the green algae and their descendants the land
plants, and is one of the major groups of oxygenic photosynthetic eukaryotes. Current …

Millions of natural and synthetic organic chemical substances are present in both soil and
aquatic environments. Toxicity and/or persistence determine the polluting principle of these …

Microbes are difficult to culture. Consequently, the primary source of information about a
fundamental evolutionary topic, life's diversity, is the environmental distribution of gene …

The monophyletic group of embryophytes (land plants) stands out among photosynthetic
eukaryotes: they are the sole constituents of the macroscopic flora on land. In their entirety …

Diversity measurement is important for understanding community structure and dynamics,
but has been particularly challenging for microorganisms. Microbial community …

Although most green algae typically occur in aquatic ecosystems, many species also live
partly or permanently under aeroterrestrial conditions, where the cells are exposed to the …

In addition to answering Hutchinson's question “Why are there so many species?”, we need
to understand why certain species are found only under certain environmental conditions …

The Streptophyta emerged about a billion years ago. Nowadays, this branch of the green
lineage is most famous for one of its clades, the land plants (Embryophyta). Although …

Protists, an integral component of soil microbiome, are one of the main predators of bacteria.
Bacteria can produce toxic secondary metabolites, eg, antibiotics to fight stress under the …

The Atacama Desert, northern Chile, is one of the driest deserts on Earth and, as such, a
natural laboratory to explore the limits of life and the strategies evolved by microorganisms …