Plant Evolution: Assembling Land Plants

Curr Biol. 2020 Jan 20;30(2):R81-R83. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.084.

Abstract

Traditional evolutionary scenarios posit that land plants emerged from land plant-like relatives, the charophytes. New phylogenies suggest a closer affinity to simpler pond scum relatives, and evidence the gradual assembly of the land plant genome, revealing a phenotypic simplification from the complex ancestors envisaged by traditional scenarios.

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MeSH terms

  • Charophyceae / genetics*
  • Embryophyta / genetics*
  • Genome, Plant
  • Phylogeny
  • Plants