I was very much looking forward to this #paleostream! The tranquil of the Devonian Rhynie Chert fascinated me for a while.
This geothermal wetland preserves some of the specimens of early landplants and is witness to the conquest of land by animals.

The emergence of multicellularity: just published in
@currentbiology.bsky.social our LIB researcher #IkerIrisarri
and a researcher team of the #UniGoettingen. Original study: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
#streptophytes #landplants #evolution #phylogenomics

Preprint. 4 coumarate:CoA ligases are part of the acyl-CoA synthetase family. Their evolution, driven by CoA and hydroxycinnamates, allowed the evolution of landplants. Our classification has 3 rather than 2 classes of 4CLs, besides OPCL (JA biosynthesis) and 4 other subfamilies.

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Prevalence and underlying mechanisms of #Phylosymbiosis in #LandPlants

#Plant_Microbe | #EvolutionaryEcology | #MicrobialCommunity

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

#Phylosymbiosis 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: doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

We demonstrated that genome size is related to cell size specially on the smallest cells of #moss #gametophytes . Our results also suggest that this relatinship is maintained across #landplants but it depends more on cell function than on cell type origin.

If I can cheekily be a little critical, there were moments where there was a bit too much of a love-in for the #microbial, and an over-egging of their scale in the #biosphere. Remember: most biomass (~70%) is in the form of #eukaryote #LandPlants.

Conservation of chromatin states and their association with transcription factors in land plants
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Automatic identification and annotation of MYB gene family members in plants
doi.org/10.1101/2021...

#LandPlants #Evolution #TranscriptionFactors