Superhydrophobic Terrestrial Cyanobacteria and Land Plant Transition by Wilhelm Barthlott, Burkhard Büdel, Matthias Mail, Matthias Mail, Klaus Michael Neumann, Dorothea Bartels, Eberhard Fischer

“…Additional data are provided for superhydrophobic surfaces in terrestrial green algae and in virtually all ancestral land plants (Bryophytes, ferns and allies, Amborella, Nelumbo), slime molds, and fungi. …”
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Diatoms from the Spring Ecosystems Selected for the Long-Term Monitoring of Climate-Change Effects in the Berchtesgaden National Park (Germany) by Marco Cantonati, Olena Bilous, Daniel Spitale, Nicola Angeli, Stefano Segadelli, Dimitri Bernabè, Kurt Lichtenwöhrer, Reinhard Gerecke, Abdullah A. Saber

“…A total of 162 species belonging to 49 genera were found sampling three microhabitat types (lithic materials, bryophytes, surface sediments). The cumulative percentage of all species included in a threat category including endangered species was 43%, confirming previous findings for comparable environments of the Alps. …”
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The Orthodox Dry Seeds Are Alive: A Clear Example of Desiccation Tolerance by Angel J. Matilla

“…ABA insensitive-3 (ABI3), highly conserved from bryophytes to Angiosperms, is essential for seed maturation and is the only transcription factor (TF) required for the acquisition of desiccation tolerance and its re-induction in germinated seeds. …”
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Diversity and conservation of the Gredos Regional Park peatlands (Iberian Central System, Spain): Geomorphological and geobotanical characterisation and incoming threats by José Antonio López Sáez, Reyes Luelmo Lautenschlaeger, Rosa M. Carrasco, Javier Pedraza, Daniel Sánchez-Mata, Enrique Luengo-Nicolau

“…The main threat to Gredensean peatlands is pastoral pressure, which affects 15 of them intensively, mainly between the upper supramediterranean and the lower orosubmediterranean bioclimatic belts (~1314–1700 m asl). Seven bryophytes and three vascular plants documented in the Gredos Regional Park peatlands are included in the IUCN Red List. …”
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Rainfall and gemmiferous shoots influence asexual reproduction in two tropical mosses by Dennis Alejandro Escolástico-Ortiz, Claudio Delgadillo-Moya

“… Background: For some bryophytes, asexual reproduction may be the primary means of population survival, which can be affected by rainfall and moss colony features. …”
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Microbial EPS‐mediated amorphous calcium carbonate–monohydrocalcite–calcite transformations during early tufa deposition by Paul L. Broughton

“…Progressive dehydration triggered ACC–MHC–nanocrystalline calcite transformations on bryophytes, algae and cyanobacteria sheaths. The adsorption of extracellular polymeric substances matrix molecules into the ACC and ACC–MHC structures preserved polymorph mineralogy of incomplete transformation. …”
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Biomass of karst evergreen and deciduous broad-leaved mixed forest in central Guizhou province, southwestern China: a comprehensive inventory of a 2 ha plot by Liu, Li-Bin, Wu, Yang-Yang, Hu, Gang, Zhang, Zhong-Hua, Cheng, An-Yun, Wang, Shi-Jie, Ni, Jian

“…Results showed that the total biomass of the forest was 158.1 Mg ha; the total biomass included the major aboveground (137.7 Mg ha) and belowground (20.3 Mg ha) biomass components of vascular plants as well as the minor biomass components of bryophytes (0.078 Mg ha) and lichens (0.043 Mg ha). …”
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Protocol: an improved method for inducing sporophyte generation in the model moss Physcomitrium patens under nitrogen starvation by Emiko Yoro, Shizuka Koshimizu, Takashi Murata, Keiko Sakakibara

“…The early-diverging land plants, known as bryophytes, have a haploid-dominant life cycle, in which a short-lived multicellular body in the diploid generation, known as the sporophyte, develops on the maternal haploid gametophyte tissues. …”
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Burn Severity Dominates Understory Plant Community Response to Fire in Xeric Jack Pine Forests by Bradley D. Pinno, Ruth C. Errington

“…However, the response of individual plant groups differed. Lichens and bryophytes were most common in low severity burns and were effectively eliminated from the regenerating plant community at higher burn severities. …”
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Transcaucasian Vegetation Database – a phytosociological database of the Southern Caucasus by Pavel Novák, Veronika Kalníková, Daniel Szokala, Alla Aleksanyan, Ketevan Batsatsashvili, George Fayvush, Sandro Kolbaia, George Nakhutsrishvili, Vojtěch Sedláček, Tadeáš Štěrba, Dominik Zukal

“…Vascular plants are recorded in all plots, while data on species composition of bryophytes are available for 11% of plots. The database intends to contribute to the complex biodiversity research of this biologically unique territory. …”
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Investigation of early-diverging land plant metabolism by Cannell, N

“…In the first I used metabolic modelling to investigate central metabolic fluxes in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, which exhibits extremely low carbon assimilation rates as a consequence of the low mesophyll conductance characteristic of bryophytes. I found that my constrained stoichiometric model of Marchantia was unable to achieve experimentally-defined growth rates without increasing carbon conversion efficiency by requiring either a very low cell maintenance cost, or some form of nocturnal carbon recycling. …”

Evolution of GOLDEN2-LIKE gene function in C3 and C4 plants by Wang, P, Fouracre, J, Kelly, S, Karki, S, Gowik, U, Aubry, S, Shaw, M, Westhoff, P, Slamet-Loedin, I, Quick, W, Hibberd, J, Langdale, J

“…A pair of GOLDEN2-LIKE transcription factors is required for normal chloroplast development in land plant species that encompass the range from bryophytes to angiosperms. In the C4 plant maize, compartmentalized function of the two GLK genes in bundle sheath and mesophyll cells regulates dimorphic chloroplast differentiation, whereas in the C3 plants Physcomitrella patens and Arabidopsis thaliana the genes act redundantly in all photosynthetic cells. …”

Red List updates and the robustness of sites selected for conservation of red-listed species by Ivar Gjerde, John-Arvid Grytnes, Einar Heegaard, Magne Sætersdal, Lise Tingstad

“…We used records of red-listed species (vascular plants, bryophytes, macrolichens, and polypore fungi) recorded in 1997–1998 in 1058 sample plots (50 × 50 m) from six forest landscapes in Norway, and four consecutive issues of the Norwegian Red List for species (1998, 2006, 2010, 2015). …”
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How big is the footprint? Quantifying offsite effects of mines on boreal plant communities by Xiangbo Yin, Christine Martineau, Nicole J. Fenton

“…The offsite effects of mines on the understory were quantified using vascular plants (woody and herbaceous), bryophytes and lichens. Mine offsite effects impacted understory diversity and composition. …”
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RALF peptides modulate immune response in the moss Physcomitrium patens by Anna Mamaeva, Irina Lyapina, Andrey Knyazev, Nina Golub, Timur Mollaev, Elena Chudinova, Sergey Elansky, Sergey Elansky, Vladislav V. Babenko, Vladimir A. Veselovsky, Ksenia M. Klimina, Tatiana Gribova, Daria Kharlampieva, Vassili Lazarev, Vassili Lazarev, Igor Fesenko

“…The subsequent analysis revealed the role of PpRALF3 in growth regulation under abiotic and biotic stress conditions, implying the importance of RALFs in responding to various adverse conditions in bryophytes. We found that knockout of the PpRALF2 and PpRALF3 genes resulted in increased resistance to bacterial and fungal phytopathogens, Pectobacterium carotovorum and Fusarium solani, suggesting the role of these peptides in negative regulation of the immune response in P. patens. …”
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Photosynthetic Responses of <i>Racomitrium japonicum</i> L. to Strontium Stress Evaluated through Chlorophyll a Fluorescence OJIP Transient Analysis by Hui Ren, Yunmei Lu, Yunlai Tang, Peng Ren, Hao Tang, Qunlong Chen, Peigang Kuang, Renhua Huang, Wenkun Zhu, Ke Chen

“…Nuclides pollution and its biological effects are of great concern, especially for bryophytes during their terrestrial adaptation. Understanding PSII activity and electron transport response is vital for comprehending moss abiotic stress reactions. …”
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Assessments of annual effective doses for population and estimation of environmental risk in the vicinity of coal-fired power plant Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina by Nedžad Gradaščević, Mirza Čelebičić, Nedim Mujić, Nejra Karaman, Emina Muftić

“…A conservative approach with a lower dose screening value (10 nGy h−1) indicated the risk for lichens and bryophytes as terrestrial organisms with high accumulation capacity for natural radionuclides.…”
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REMEDIATION OF COAL ASH AND SLAG DISPOSAL SITE: COMPARISON OF RADIOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENTS by Ana Getaldić, Marija Surić Mihić, Želimir Veinović, Božena Skoko, Branko Petrinec

“…The results showed that after the remediation only the total dose rate for lichens and bryophytes slightly exceeded ERICA Tool conservative screening value of 10 μGyh-1, which implies that environmental risks in relation to exposure to the disposal site can be considered negligible. …”
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Regulation of Heat Stress in <i>Physcomitrium</i> (<i>Physcomitrella</i>) <i>patens</i> Provides Novel Insight into the Functions of Plant RNase H1s by Zhuo Yang, Liu Duan, Hongyu Li, Ting Tang, Liuzhu Chen, Keming Hu, Hong Yang, Li Liu

“…RNase H1s are associated with growth and development in both plants and animals, while the roles of RNase H1s in bryophytes have been rarely reported. Our previous data found that <i>PpRNH1A,</i> a member of the <i>RNase H1</i> family, could regulate the development of <i>Physcomitrium (Physcomitrella) patens</i> by regulating the auxin. …”
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Mechanistic basis for the evolution of chalcone synthase catalytic cysteine reactivity in land plants by Liou, Geoffrey, Chiang, Ying-Chih, Wang, Yi, Weng, Jing-Ke

“…In this study, we report a set of new crystal structures of CHSs representing all five major lineages of land plants (bryophytes, lycophytes, monilophytes, gymnosperms, and angiosperms), spanning 500 million years of evolution. …”
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