Streptophyte terrestrialization and the conquest of land by embryophytes. Illustration adapted from Fig. 1 of de Vries & Archibald (2018; https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14975) by Debbie Maizels.

Our #VirtualIssue on Plant terrestrialization focuses on piecing together #streptophyte trait #evolution and curating research that has contributed to advances in the evolutionary inference of (early) land plant form and function 👇

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Phylogeny of the green lineage and selected recent advances in land plant evolution research published in New Phytologist.

Plant #terrestrialization: piecing together #streptophyte trait #evolution

Check out this #Editorial from Panstruga, Fürst-Jansen & de Vries introducing the Virtual issue 'Plant terrestrialization'

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Newly discovered algae species offers insights into plant evolution and UV protection An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions for the first time in a recent publication in the journal Environmental Micro...

Newly discovered #algae species offers insights into #plant #evolution and #UV protection.

#Streptofilum #tundra #arctic #soil #microbiome #streptophyte #phylogenomics

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Thrilled to share the final and improved (thanks & shoutout to Maaike and Iker) version of #Phylogenomic insights into the first #multicellular #streptophyte now online @currentbiology.bsky.social #plantsci #charophytes #evolution www.cell.com/current-biol...

Thrilled to share the final and improved (thanks & shoutout to @MaaikeBier @IkerIrisarri ) version of #Phylogenomic insights into the first #multicellular #streptophyte now online @CurrentBiology | @watertoland #plantsci #charophytes #evolution...

This has been great fun! Some of our thoughts @Sophie_de_Vries @IkerIrisarri @armin_dadras @RiesebergTim @JaccolineZegers @Fuerst_Jansen on #streptophyte #evolution and specialized #metabolism | @watertoland #plantsci #algae ...

New Taxa of #Streptophyte #Algae (#Streptophyta) from Terrestrial Habitats. Exciting! #plants #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S143...