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Early land plants: Plentiful but neglected nutritional resources for herbivores? [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2022 In this paper, we explore the unknown reason(s) why herbivores rarely seem to attack early land plants like mosses and ferns. Our study, in which we looked at the performance of an arthropod and a gastropod on 15 species of such plants, yields surprising results that disqualify some of the common notions about early land plants.
Duhin A +3 more
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Techniques for locating and analyzing subterranean Lycopodium and Diphasiastrum gametophytes in the field. [PDF]
Appl Plant Sci, 2022 Abstract Homosporous club mosses have an archaic life cycle, alternating two locationally, nutritionally, and physiologically independent generations. The sexual generation of club mosses—the gametophytes (or prothallia)—are among the least researched botanical subjects.
Rimgailė-Voicik R, Naujalis JR.
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Water-related innovations in land plants evolved by different patterns of gene cooption and novelty. [PDF]
New Phytol, 2022 Summary The origin of land plants and their descendants was marked by the evolution of key adaptations to life in terrestrial environments such as roots, vascular tissue and stomata. Though these innovations are well characterized, the evolution of the genetic toolkit underlying their development and function is poorly understood. We analysed molecular
Bowles AMC, Paps J, Bechtold U.
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Desiccation tolerance in bryophytes relates to elasticity but is independent of cell wall thickness and photosynthesis. [PDF]
Physiol Plant, 2022 Abstract Mosses have been found outliers of the trade‐off between photosynthesis and bulk elastic modulus described for vascular plants. Hence, potential trade‐offs among physical features of cell walls and desiccation tolerance, water relations, and photosynthesis were assessed in bryophytes and other poikilohydric species.
Perera-Castro AV, Flexas J.
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TRB proteins in moss reveal their evolutionarily conserved roles in plant development and telomere maintenance. [PDF]
Plant JSignificance Statement TRB proteins in the moss P. patens are essential for normal development, telomere maintenance, and transcriptional regulation. Our findings demonstrate the evolutionary conservation of TRB functions across land plants and highlight their ancient origin in streptophytes.
Kusová A +14 more
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Morphology and ultrastructure of megaspores and microspores of Isoetes sehnemii Fuchs (Lycophyta)
Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciencias, 2010 The morphology and wall ultrastructure of megaspores and microspores of Isoetes sehnemii that grows in Brazil were analyzed as part of the study of the Isoetaceae present in Southern South America. The observations were performed with light, scanning and
Cecilia Macluf +2 more
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Late Carboniferous Macroflora from Rod El-Hamal Formation Wadi Araba, North Eastern Desert, Egypt [PDF]
Taeckholmia, 2016 The Late Carboniferous of Rod El-Hamal Formation, Wadi Araba has some fossil plant remains content. Thesystematic description of these remains reveals the identification of twelve species representing Lycophyta,Sphenophyta, Pteridospermatophyta, and ...
Yasser El Safori, Mona darwish
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Palaeoclimate of the Baghamshah Formation, northeastern Tabas, central Iran, based on terrestrial palynomorphs [PDF]
Journal of Stratigraphy and Sedimentology Researches, 2023 The Baghamshah Formation (Middle Jurassic) at the Senj stratigraphic section, northeastern Tabas, central Iran, consists of diverse and relatively well-preserved palynomorphs, including spore and pollen of land plants, microscopic algae, acritarchs ...
Fereshteh Sajjadi +4 more
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Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais, 2009 Este trabalho faz parte de uma série de estudos realizada com as licófitas e monilófitas da Floresta Nacional de Caxiuanã, a qual abrange cerca de 200.000 ha, composta especialmente por floresta de terra firme, florestas inundáveis (várzea e igapó ...
Marcio Roberto Pietrobom +5 more
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2009 Este trabalho apresenta o tratamento taxonômico para as espécies de Lycophyta da região da borda oeste do Pantanal sul-matogrossense. Duas famílias estão presentes na área, Lycopodiaceae e Selaginellaceae, com cinco e seis espécies respectivamente.
Elton Luis Monteiro de Assis +1 more
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