Some 500 million years ago plant life on land started to flourish and diversify. This transformative event required the ability to resist to earth’s challenges—abilities hard-wired in extant plants today.
Some prerequisites for terrestrial life already evolved in streptophyte algae, thus offering building blocks and networks that enabled adaptation to land; during evolution of the extant lineages of streptophytes, many of these networks are used and/or have been co-opted for terrestrial life.
During the last years, model organisms of most streptophyte groups became accessible and stimulated research in the field of evolutionary plant biology, including genomic and transcriptomic resources and transformation protocols for various streptophytes.
In-detail studies on various aspects of terrestrial life are possible now and necessary to expand a plant biologist’s horizon of this fundamental step during plant evolution. Gaining knowledge on the driving forces of terrestrialization and subsequent diversification can offer insights to develop perspectives for the future in rapidly (climate) changing environments.
This special issue invites articles (original research, methods, perspectives, hypotheses, opinions and reviews) on biochemical, morphological, physiological and other aspects of plant biology and evolution, which contribute to a deeper understanding of the water-to-land-transition. This includes, but is not limited to, evolution of abiotic and biotic interactions, which became stimulating factors for the diversification on land.
Deadline: end of August 2023 NEW DEADLINE end OCTOBER 2023
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Guest editors
Dr. Jaume Flexas
jaume.flexas@uib.es
Department of biology, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Dr. Sophie de Vries
sophie.devries@uni-goettingen.de
Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics
University of Göttingen, Germany
Dr. Lukas Pfeifer
lpfeifer@pharmazie.uni-kiel.de
Department of Pharmaceutical Biology
CAU Kiel University, Germany
Dr. Katharina Melkonian
katharina.melkonian-ezekian@cnrs.fr
Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales (LRSV) Toulouse
Castanet Tolosan, France