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 …

Since the discovery two decades ago that transgenes are efficiently integrated into the
genome of Physcomitrella patens by homologous recombination, this moss has been a …

The draft genome of the moss model, Physcomitrella patens, comprised approximately 2000
unordered scaffolds. In order to enable analyses of genome structure and evolution we …

Embryophytes (land plants) can be found in almost any habitat on the Earth's surface. All of
this ecologically diverse embryophytic flora arose from algae through a singular evolutionary …

Lignin, one of the most abundant biopolymers on Earth, derives from the plant phenolic
metabolism. It appeared upon terrestrialization and is thought critical for plant colonization of …

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 …

Highlights•Many land plant-like features evolved in freshwater algae.•The cell wall,
alternation of division plane and polyplastidy were probably important for terrestrialization.• …

In seed plants, strigolactones (SL s) regulate architecture and induce mycorrhizal symbiosis
in response to environmental cues. SL s are formed by combined activity of the carotenoid …

Introduction of clonal reproduction through seeds (apomixis) in crops has the potential to
revolutionize agriculture by allowing self-propagation of any elite variety, in particular F1 …

Stomata are microscopic valves on plant surfaces that originated over 400 million years
(Myr) ago and facilitated the greening of Earth's continents by permitting efficient shoot …