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. 2024 Feb 5;34(3):R86-R89.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.036.

Plant evolution: Streptophyte multicellularity, ecology, and the acclimatisation of plants to life on land

Philip C J Donoghue  1 , James W Clark  2
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Plant evolution: Streptophyte multicellularity, ecology, and the acclimatisation of plants to life on land

Philip C J Donoghue et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

Land plants are celebrated as one of the three great instances of complex multicellularity, but new phylogenomic and phenotypic analyses are revealing deep evolutionary roots of multicellularity among algal relatives, prompting questions about the causal basis of this major evolutionary transition.

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  • Phylogenomic insights into the first multicellular streptophyte.
    Bierenbroodspot MJ, Darienko T, de Vries S, Fürst-Jansen JMR, Buschmann H, Pröschold T, Irisarri I, de Vries J. Bierenbroodspot MJ, et al. Curr Biol. 2024 Feb 5;34(3):670-681.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.070. Epub 2024 Jan 19. Curr Biol. 2024. PMID: 38244543 Free PMC article.

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