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

Philip C. J. Donoghue; James W. Clark

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, James W. Clark

Department of Life Sciences

University of Bristol

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R86-R89
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	34
Issue number	3
Early online date	5 Feb 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.036
Publication status	Published - 5 Feb 2024

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

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