Contrasting drivers of community-level trait variation for vascular plants, lichens and bryophytes across an elevational gradient by Roos, Ruben E., van Zuijlen, Kristel, Birkemoe, Tone, Klanderud, Kari, Lang, Simone I., Bokhorst, Stef, Wardle, David A., Asplund, Johan

“…Across environmental gradients, community‐level functional traits of plants can change due to species turnover, intraspecific variation and their covariation. Studies on vascular plants suggest that species turnover is the main driver of trait variation across gradients, although intraspecific variation can also be important. …”
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Comparative transcriptomic analysis reveals conserved programmes underpinning organogenesis and reproduction in land plants by Julca, Irene, Ferrari, Camilla, Flores-Tornero, María, Proost, Sebastian, Lindner, Ann-Cathrin, Hackenberg, Dieter, Steinbachová, Lenka, Michaelidis, Christos, Gomes Pereira, Sónia, Misra, Chandra Shekhar, Kawashima, Tomokazu, Borg, Michael, Berger, Frédéric, Goldberg, Jacob, Johnson, Mark, Honys, David, Twell, David, Sprunck, Stefanie, Dresselhaus, Thomas, Becker, Jörg D., Mutwil, Marek

“…To remedy this, we generated gene expression atlases for various organs and gametes of ten plant species comprising bryophytes, vascular plants, gymnosperms and flowering plants. A comparative analysis of the atlases identified hundreds of organ- and gamete-specific orthogroups and revealed that most of the specific transcriptomes are significantly conserved. …”
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