Abstract
Key message: Comparative genetics and genomics among green plants, including algae, provide deep insights into the evolution of land plant sexual reproduction. Abstract: Land plants have evolved successive changes during their conquest of the land and innovations in sexual reproduction have played a major role in their terrestrialization. Recent years have seen many revealing dissections of the molecular mechanisms of sexual reproduction and much new genomics data from the land plant lineage, including early diverging land plants, as well as algae. This new knowledge is being integrated to further understand how sexual reproduction in land plants evolved, identifying highly conserved factors and pathways, but also molecular changes that underpinned the emergence of new modes of sexual reproduction. Here, we review recent advances in the knowledge of land plant sexual reproduction from an evolutionary perspective and also revisit the evolution of angiosperm double fertilization.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 353-364 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Plant Reproduction |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords
- Angiosperms
- Evolution
- Land plants
- Sexual reproduction
- Sperm morphogenesis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Plant Science
- Cell Biology