This study was supported by the NSFC-Xinjiang Key Project(Grant No.U1703233 to DZ);National Science Foundation(Collaborative Research:Dimensions:Grant No.1638972 to MJO).
Mosses(Bryophyta)are a key group occupying an important phylogenetic position in land plant(embryophyte)evolution.The class Bryopsida represents the most diversified lineage,containing more than 95%of modern mosses,wh...
supported by the CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program;the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31571262);Yunnan Natural Science Foundation (2017FB031)
Heat stress can restrict plant growth,development,and crop yield.As essential plant antioxidants,carotenoids play significant roles in plant stress resistance.b-carotene hydroxylase(BHY)and b-carotene ketolase(BKT),wh...
Selection on spore dispersal mechanisms in mosses is thought to shape the transformation of the sporophyte. The majority of extant mosses develop a sporangium that dehisces through the loss of an operculum, and regula...
The cuticle is the outer physical barrier of aerial plant surfaces and an important interaction point between plants and the environment. Many environmental stresses affect cuticle formation, yet the regulatory pathwa...
Superoxide dismutases (SODs) catalyze the dismutation of superoxide and play an important role in reducing oxidative stress in plants. Based on in-gel SOD activity staining, chloroplasts of the moss Physcomitrella pat...
a National Science Foundation Plant Genome Grant for theFloral Genome Project (DBI-0115684);the Biology Department and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University;Thisstudy was conducted using material generated in part with support from theNational Science Foundation (No. 0215923)
Zinc finger-homeodomain proteins (ZHD) are present in many plants; however, the evolutionary history of the ZHD gene family remains largely unknown. We show here that ZHD genes are plant-specific, nearly all intronl...