The hornworts: morphology, evolution and development.
- Frangedakis E Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA, UK.
- Shimamura M Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, 739-8528, Japan.
- Villarreal JC Department of Biology, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.
- Li FW Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1801, USA.
- Tomaselli M Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA, UK.
- Waller M Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8008, Switzerland.
- Sakakibara K Department of Life Science, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, 171-8501, Japan.
- Renzaglia KS Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 62901, USA.
- Szövényi P Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8008, Switzerland.
- 2020-08-14
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- The New phytologist. - 2020
English
Extant land plants consist of two deeply divergent groups, tracheophytes and bryophytes, which shared a common ancestor some 500 million years ago. While information about vascular plants and the two of the three lineages of bryophytes, the mosses and liverworts, is steadily accumulating, the biology of hornworts remains poorly explored. Yet, as the sister group to liverworts and mosses, hornworts are critical in understanding the evolution of key land plant traits. Until recently, there was no hornwort model species amenable to systematic experimental investigation, which hampered detailed insight into the molecular biology and genetics of this unique group of land plants. The emerging hornwort model species, Anthoceros agrestis, is instrumental in our efforts to better understand not only hornwort biology but also fundamental questions of land plant evolution. To this end, here we provide an overview of hornwort biology and current research on the model plant A. agrestis to highlight its potential in answering key questions of land plant biology and evolution.
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- DOI 10.1111/nph.16874
- PMID 32790880
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- https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/39070
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