Editorial: Evolution of Reproductive Organs in Land Plants

Editorial: Evolution of Reproductive Organs in Land Plants

Evolution of Oleosin in Land Plants

Oleosins form a steric barrier surface on lipid droplets in cytoplasm, preventing them from contacting and coalescing with adjacent droplets. Oleosin genes have been detected in numerous plant species. However, the presence of oleosin genes in the most basally diverging lineage of land plants, liverworts, has not been reported previously. Thus we explored whether liverworts have an oleosin gene...

Expression Analyses of Embryogenesis-Associated Genes during Somatic Embryogenesis of Adiantum capillus-veneris L. In vitro: New Insights into the Evolution of Reproductive Organs in Land Plants

An efficient in vitro regeneration system via somatic embryogenesis (SE) was developed for a fern species Adiantum capillus-veneris. Adventitious shoots, green globular bodies (GGBs) and calli were obtained with the maximal induction rate on the Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium of low concentrations of 6-benzyladenine (BA) (0-1.0 mg/L), 2.0 mg/L BA without 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D),...

Reproductive systems and evolution in vascular plants.

Differences in the frequency with which offspring are produced asexually, through self-fertilization and through sexual outcrossing, are a predominant influence on the genetic structure of plant populations. Selfers and asexuals have fewer genotypes within populations than outcrossers with similar allele frequencies, and more genetic diversity in selfers and asexuals is a result of differences ...

Evolution of Primitive Land Plants: A Review

Our understanding of the evolution of primitive land plants is overviewed. Molecular phylogenetic data suggest that the suggested ancestor of the land plants is Charophyceae, although other ancestry is suggested based on different lines of evidence. Invasion to land environment during the mid-Ordovician or earlier should have been made possible by chemical compounds, ozone, flavonoid, cutin, sp...