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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Plackett AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6200394 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20181024
During land plant evolution, determinate spore-bearing axes (retained in extant bryophytes such as mosses) were progressively transformed into indeterminate branching shoots with specialized reproductive axes that form flowers. The LEAFY transcription factor, which is required for the first zygotic cell division in mosses and primarily for floral meristem identity in flowering plants, may have facilitated developmental innovations during these transitions. Mapping the LEAFY evolutionary trajecto ...[more]