Genomes and Evolution of Charophytes, Bryophytes, Lycophytes and Ferns

Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences. The series features several reviews by recognized experts on all aspects of plant genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology, and ecology. Volume 78 focuses on the Genomes and Evolution of Charophytes, Bryophytes, Lycophytes, and Ferns. Sequencing of genomes of ‘lower’ animals such as sponges or hydrozoans has much informed our understanding of how metazoans evolved.

On the plant side of things, sequencing and comparison of a moss and lycophyte genome with those of green algae and flowering plants has greatly informed our understanding of plant evolution. However, it has also become clear that we need to look into genomes of the closest algal relatives to land plants, the charophytes, and into further genomes of bryophytes, lycophytes, and ferns to unravel how land plants evolved.

Features reviews by recognized experts on all aspects of plant genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology, and ecologyFocuses on the genomes and evolution of charophytes, bryophytes, lycophytes, and fernsOffers a first time compilation on non-flowering plant genomesHelps unravel how land plants evolved

1. Technological Innovations Give Rise to a New Era of Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology Keiko Sakakibara 2. Co-Evolution of Organelle RNA Editing and Nuclear Specificity Factors in Early Land Plants Mareike Schallenberg-Rüdinger and Volker Knoop 3. The Genome of the Model Moss Physcomitrella Patens Daniel Lang, Nico van Gessel, Kristian K. Ullrich and Ralf Reski 4. The Ceratodon Purpureus Transcriptome Ushers in the Era of Moss Comparative Genomics Stuart F. McDaniel, Pierre-François Perroud, Andrew C. Cuming and Peter Szovenyi 5. The Sphagnum Genome Project: A New Model For Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics A. Jonathan Shaw, Jeremy Schmutz, Nicolas Devos, Shengqiang Shu, Alyssa A. Carrell and David J. Weston 6. The Genome of the Model Species Anthoceros Agrestis Péter Szovenyi 7. Evolutionary Genomics of Ferns and Lycophytes Emily B. Sessa and Joshua P. Der 8. The Genomes of Charophyte Green Algae Charles F. Delwiche