Ferns and lycophytes in Brazil's semi-arid region [PDF]
Rodriguésia, 2012 Little knowledge has been gathered on ferns and lycophytes occurring in the semi-arid region of Brazil known as the Caatinga, perhaps due to the widespread idea that a semi-arid climate would be incompatible with environmental demands of ferns and ...
Sergio Romero da Silva Xavier +2 more
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Paleo-polyploidization in Lycophytes
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, 2020 Lycophytes and seed plants constitute the typical vascular plants. Lycophytes have been thought to have no paleo-polyploidization although the event is known to be critical for the fast expansion of seed plants.
Jinpeng Wang +22 more
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Fossil evidence for silica biomineralization in Permian lycophytes. [PDF]
Natl Sci RevThis paper reports the first in-situ fossil evidence for silica biomineralisation in Permian plants. The discovery reinforces the significant role that land plants have played in influencing the evolution of Earth systems in deep time.
Feng Z, Sui Q, Wei HB, Chen J.
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Was the evolution of faster stomata driven by increased gas exchange rates rather than increasing water use efficiency? [PDF]
New PhytolSummary Following changes in light flux, photosynthesis (A) typically adjusts more quickly than stomatal conductance (gs), which is dependent on changes in stomatal aperture. Faster stomatal responses are proposed to reduce water loss and enhance growth in dynamic light environments. Stomatal opening and closing parameters were determined in a range of
Brench RA +4 more
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Hidden Diversity in the Iberá Wetlands: Fern and Lycophyte Richness and Biogeographic Boundaries [PDF]
PlantsThe Iberá Wetlands in northeastern Argentina constitute the second largest wetland system in South America, yet the fern and lycophyte flora of this region remains poorly documented.
Esteban Ismael Meza-Torres +5 more
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Construction of a bacterial artificial chromosome library from the spikemoss
BMC Plant Biology, 2005 Background The lycophytes are an ancient lineage of vascular plants that diverged from the seed plant lineage about 400 Myr ago. Although the lycophytes occupy an important phylogenetic position for understanding the evolution of plants and their genomes,
Chapple Clint +15 more
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Genome size evolution of the extant lycophytes and ferns
Plant Diversity, 2022 Ferns and lycophytes have remarkably large genomes. However, little is known about how their genome size evolved in fern lineages. To explore the origins and evolution of chromosome numbers and genome size in ferns, we used flow cytometry to measure the ...
Fa-Guo Wang +16 more
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Comprehensive analysis of the Lycopodium japonicum mitogenome reveals abundant tRNA genes and cis-spliced introns in Lycopodiaceae species [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceLycophytes and ferns represent one of the earliest-diverging lineages of vascular plants, with the Lycopodiaceae family constituting the basal clade among lycophytes.
Ning Sun +8 more
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Membranous Interacting Partners of Phage-Type Plastid RNA Polymerase Have Limited Impact on Plastid Gene Expression During Chloroplast Development. [PDF]
Plant DirectABSTRACT In vascular plants, genes in the plastid genome are transcribed by two types of RNA polymerases, namely, phage‐type nuclear‐encoded and bacterial‐type plastid‐encoded plastid RNA polymerases (NEP and PEP, respectively). Eudicots, including Arabidopsis, carry two isoforms of NEP, RPOTp and RPOTmp.
Kurotaki Y +4 more
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Editorial: Biology, systematics, and evolution of ferns and lycophytes in the omics era, volume II [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceLi-Yaung Kuo +2 more
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