The WOX genes form a plant-specific subclade of the eukaryotic homeobox transcription
factor superfamily, which is characterized by the presence of a conserved DNA-binding …

Growing evidence shows that epigenetic mechanisms contribute to complex traits, with
implications across many fields of biology. In plant ecology, recent studies have attempted to …

Highlights • Whole genome duplications are an important mode of plant evolution. • Plants
evolve developmental novelties by retention of duplicated control genes. • Genes controlling …

We report the draft genome sequence of the model moss Physcomitrella patens and compare
its features with those of flowering plants, from which it is separated by more than 400 …

Brown algae (Phaeophyceae) are complex photosynthetic organisms with a very different
evolutionary history to green plants, to which they are only distantly related 1 . These …

Vascular plants appeared ~410 million years ago, then diverged into several lineages of
which only two survive: the euphyllophytes (ferns and seed plants) and the lycophytes. We …

The mutualistic symbiosis involving Glomeromycota, a distinctive phylum of early diverging
Fungi, is widely hypothesized to have promoted the evolution of land plants during the …

The Plant Transcription Factor Database (PlnTFDB; http://plntfdb.bio.uni-potsdam.de/v3.0/ )
is an integrative database that provides putatively complete sets of transcription factors (TFs) …

The multicellular green alga Volvox carteri and its morphologically diverse close relatives (the
volvocine algae) are well suited for the investigation of the evolution of multicellularity and …

Some microbial eukaryotes, such as the extremophilic red alga Galdieria sulphuraria, live in
hot, toxic metal-rich, acidic environments. To elucidate the underlying molecular …