Plant Evolution: When Arabidopsis Is More Ancestral Than Marchantia

Mélanie K Rich; Pierre-Marc Delaux

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.077

Plant Evolution: When Arabidopsis Is More Ancestral Than Marchantia

Curr Biol. 2020 Jun 8;30(11):R642-R644. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.077.

Authors

Mélanie K Rich¹, Pierre-Marc Delaux²

Affiliations

¹ Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales (LRSV), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Castanet Tolosan, France.
² Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales (LRSV), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Castanet Tolosan, France. Electronic address: pierre-marc.delaux@lrsv.ups-tlse.fr.

PMID: 32516612
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.077

Abstract

The quest for determining how the plants that first lived on land 450 million years ago looked is among the most exciting challenges in evolutionary biology. Recent work indicates that they displayed angiosperm-like stomata.

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MeSH terms

Arabidopsis* / genetics
Evolution, Molecular
Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
Marchantia*
Phylogeny