Apparition of the NAC Transcription Factors Predates the Emergence of Land Plants

Affiliations

• ¹ Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France; Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France.
• ² Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France.
• ³ IRD, UMR DIADE, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP64501, 34394, Montpellier Cedex 5, France; LMI RICE, IRD, USTH, National Key Laboratory for Plant Cell Biotechnology, Agronomical Genetics Institute, Pham Van Dong Road, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• ⁴ Botany Department, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany.
• ⁵ Beijing Genomics Institute-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E, Canada.
• ⁶ Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France. Electronic address: patrick.laufs@versailles.inra.fr.