Plant evolution: Streptophyte multicellularity, ecology, and the acclimatisation of plants to life on land

Philip C J Donoghue; James W  Clark

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.036

Plant evolution: Streptophyte multicellularity, ecology, and the acclimatisation of plants to life on land

Philip C J Donoghue^*, James W Clark

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Land plants are celebrated as one of the three great instances of complex multicellularity, but new phylogenomic and phenotypic analyses are revealing deep evolutionary roots of multicellularity among algal relatives, prompting questions about the causal basis of this major evolutionary transition

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R86-R89
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	34
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.036
Publication status	Published - 5 Feb 2024

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