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Rodriguésia, 2023 Ferns and lycophytes are plants often overlooked in most floristic inventories, leading to considerable gaps in the knowledge of their diversity and geographic distribution. To address this issue, we conducted a study aimed at reducing these gaps for the
Arthur Oliveira Garcia +6 more
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Angiosperms Are Unique among Land Plant Lineages in the Occurrence of Key Genes in the RNA-Directed DNA Methylation (RdDM) Pathway [PDF]
, 2015 We are grateful for the FP7 Marie Curie IEF (Lu Ma), the FP7 Marie Curie ITN INTERCROSSING (Andrea Hatlen), the Czech Science Foundation (501/12/G090, Ales Kovarik), China Scholarship Council (Wencai Wang), and NERC (NE/ G01724/1, Laura Kelly, Ilia ...
Becher, H +7 more
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Diversity and composition of ferns and lycophytes in a fragmented landscape in Ecuadorian Amazonia
Rodriguésia, 2023 Tropical forests have been subjected to increasing deforestation, leading to severe habitat loss and fragmentation of the landscape. Studies of various plant groups-indicate alteration in species diversity and assemblage composition in response to these ...
Gabriel Massaine Moulatlet +4 more
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De novo characterization of the gametophyte transcriptome in bracken fern, Pteridium aquilinum [PDF]
, 2011 Background Because of their phylogenetic position and unique characteristics of their biology and life cycle, ferns represent an important lineage for studying the evolution of land plants.
Claude W dePamphilis +4 more
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A lycophyte's plight when the light is too bright
Physiologia Plantarum, 2022 Plants cannot go to the store to buy sunscreen when they get too much sunlight. Instead, they use a suite of molecular processes that turn excess absorbed light energy into heat so that it can be harmlessly dissipated. These photoprotective processes collectively fall under the umbrella term “nonphotochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence ...
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Selaginella genome analysis – entering the ‘homoplasy heaven’ of the MADS world
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2012 In flowering plants, arguably the most significant transcription factors regulating development are MADS-domain proteins, encoded by Type I and Type II MADS-box genes. Type II genes are divided into the MIKCC and MIKC* groups. In angiosperms, these types
Lydia eGramzow +6 more
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Complete plastid genomes from Ophioglossum californicum, Psilotum nudum, and Equisetum hyemale reveal an ancestral land plant genome structure and resolve the position of Equisetales among monilophytes [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Plastid genome structure and content is remarkably conserved in land plants. This widespread conservation has facilitated taxon-rich phylogenetic analyses that have resolved organismal relationships among many land plant groups.
A Katie Hansen +4 more
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The evolution of aluminum accumulation in ferns and lycophytes [PDF]
American Journal of Botany, 2017 PREMISE OF THE STUDY:This paper investigates the occurrence and evolution of aluminum (Al) accumulation within ferns and lycophytes, which is characterized by Al concentrations above 1000 mg·kg−1 in aboveground plant tissues. We hypothesize that this feature is more common in ferns than in angiosperms, and potentially correlated with growth form and ...
Marco, Schmitt +5 more
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Shaped by context: Evolutionary trajectories of desiccation tolerance in land plants
American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Abstract Desiccation tolerance (DT), the ability to survive near‐complete cellular dehydration, is widespread in diaspores but rare in the vegetative tissues of land plants. The patchy and punctuated phylogenetic distribution of vegetative desiccation tolerance (VDT) suggests that the trait is both ancient and recurrent, yet the evolutionary ...
Rose A. Marks +2 more
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A Review of Galls on Ferns and Lycophytes
Environmental Entomology, 2018 Fern-insect interactions have not received the same attention as angiosperm-insect interactions have. It has even been stated that ferns may have very few interactions with animals because of their lack of flowers, fruits, and seeds. Consequently, for many decades fern-insect interactions have been overlooked and underestimated, especially for highly ...
Marcelo Guerra, Santos +3 more
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