How did plants evolve to cope with such a challenging and changing habitat?

It turns out the answer is in 600 million years of stress! A research team led by our Uni compared algae and plants spanning million years of independent evolution. Using advanced bioinformatic methods, they pinpointed a shared stress response network: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7740

Research at #NatureCommunications: https://doi.org/n9m4

#Diversity #Evolution #Algae #Landplants

Information for the Media - Georg-August-University Göttingen

Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

Georg-August Universität Göttingen
#Phylosymbiosis, the congruence of microbiome composition with host phylogeny, is a valuable framework for investigating #Plant–microbe associations and their #EvolutionaryEcology. This review of Li-Qun Lin et al. discussed the #Prevalence and underlying #Mechanisms of phylosymbiosis in #LandPlants.
Details: https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtae051

🔔#ERGASeminar | Next Monday, May 27 at 12pm CEST, join us for a talk with speakers Iker Irisarri
and Maaike Bierenbroodspot as they discuss how phylogenomics and multi-omics are helping unveil the origin of land plants 🌱

https://www.youtube.com/live/fk0VuR2qlo8?si=Kh0Il_y21w2iEcJb

#phylogenomics #LandPlants #MajorTransitions #Evolution

Phylogenomics and comparative multi-omics illuminate the origin of land plants

YouTube

Study reshapes understanding of mass #extinction in Late Devonian era
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-reshapes-mass-extinction-late-devonian.html

The expansion of #LandPlants during the Late #Devonian contributed to the marine #MassExtinction https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01087-8

"Diverse and full of #SeaLife, the Earth's Devonian era—taking place more than 370 million years ago—saw the emergence of the first seed-bearing #plants, which spread as large #forests across the #continents of #Gondwana and #Laurussia."

Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era

Diverse and full of sea life, the Earth's Devonian era—taking place more than 370 million years ago—saw the emergence of the first seed-bearing plants, which spread as large forests across the continents of Gondwana and Laurussia.

Phys.org