Thermophilisation of communities differs between land plant lineages, land use types and elevation by Thomas Kiebacher, Markus Meier, Tabea Kipfer, Tobias Roth

“…Abstract Bryophytes provide key ecosystem services at the global scale such as carbon storage and primary production in resource limited habitats, but compared to vascular plants knowledge on how these organisms face recent climate warming is fragmentary. …”
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Conserved transport mechanisms but distinct auxin responses govern shoot patterning in Selaginella kraussiana. by Sanders, H, Langdale, J

“…To provide a comparative framework to understand the evolution of auxin regulation in vascular plants, the effect of perturbed auxin homeostasis was examined in the lycophyte Selaginella kraussiana. …”

Conserved transport mechanisms but distinct auxin responses govern shoot patterning in Selaginella kraussiana by Sanders, H, Langdale, J

“…To provide a comparative framework to understand the evolution of auxin regulation in vascular plants, the effect of perturbed auxin homeostasis was examined in the lycophyte Selaginella kraussiana. …”

Contrasting Pollination Strategies and Breeding Systems in Two Native Useful Cacti from Southern Brazil by Rafael Becker, Oscar Perdomo Báez, Rosana Farias Singer, Rodrigo Bustos Singer

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Genetic basis of rhizoid development in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha by Honkanen, S

“…Many genes required for rhizoid elongation were similar with those required for root hair elongation, suggesting that these genes are likely to have been part of the genetic network downstream of class I <em>RSL</em> genes in the common ancestor of liverworts and vascular plants.</p>…”

Floristic diversity of Volga Reach islands of the Rybinsk Reservoir by Elena G. Krylova, Eduard V. Garin

“…For vascular plants, ecological groups and life forms have been identified. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF SELECTED ORGANIC MICROPOLLUTANTS ON WATER ECOSYSTEMS by Edyta Anna Kudlek, Mariusz Dudziak

“…The solution of benzophenone-3 at a concentration of 5 mg/dm3 was characterized by the highest toxic effects against both bacteria, crustaceans and vascular plants.…”
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Flora-On: Occurrence data of the vascular flora of mainland Portugal by Ana Júlia Pereira, Ana Francisco, Miguel Porto

“…The Flora-On dataset currently includes 253,310 occurrence records for the class Embryopsidae (vascular plants), comprising data collated via the platform http://flora-on.pt/ relating to observation records of vascular plants across mainland Portugal. …”
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The evolution, morphology and development of fern leaves by Alejandra eVasco, Robbin C. Moran, Barbara A. Ambrose

“…The origin and evolution of leaves in vascular plants has been widely debated. Being the main conspicuous organ of nearl all vascular plants and often easy to recognize as such, it seems surprising that leaves have had multiple origins. …”
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Biogeography of photoautotrophs in the high polar biome by Stephen Brian Pointing, Burkhard eBuedel, Peter eConvey, Len eGillman, Christian eKoerner, Sebastian eLeuzinger, Warwick F. Vincent

“…High polar ecosystems are biologically unique, with a more central role for bryophytes, lichens and microbial photoautotrophs over that of vascular plants. Constraints on vascular plants arise mainly due to stature and ontogenetic barriers. …”
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Origin and diversification of basic-helix-loop-helix proteins in plants. by Pires, N, Dolan, L

“…Twenty of these subfamilies existed in the common ancestors of extant mosses and vascular plants, whereas six further subfamilies evolved among the vascular plants. …”

Mapping Asia Plants: Historical Outline and Review of Sources on Floristic Diversity in South Asia by Cui Xiao, Zhixiang Zhang, Keping Ma, Qinwen Lin

“…According to currently available information, the approximated numbers of plant taxa for each country in South Asia are as follows: Afghanistan, 5261 (vascular plants); Bangladesh, 3470 (vascular plants); Bhutan, 5985 (flowering plants); India, 21,558 (flowering plants); Maldives, 270 (common plants); Nepal, 6500 (flowering plants); Pakistan, 6000+ (vascular plants); and Sri Lanka, 4143 (flowering plants). …”
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Plant virus movement proteins originated from jelly-roll capsid proteins. by Anamarija Butkovic, Valerian V Dolja, Eugene V Koonin, Mart Krupovic

“…We hypothesize that the MPs evolved via duplication or horizontal acquisition of the CP gene in a virus that infected an ancestor of vascular plants, followed by neofunctionalization of one of the paralogous CPs, potentially through the acquisition of unique N- and C-terminal regions. …”
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The retention dynamics of early-spring N input in a temperate forest ecosystem: Implications for winter N deposition by Linna Ma, Chaoxue Zhang, Yixia Lv, Renzhong Wang

“…We applied 15N isotopic tracer after snowmelt, and then quantified 15N dynamics in litter, soils, microbes and vascular plants over the following growing season in a warm temperate forest of northern China. …”
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Field-Layer Vegetation and Water Table Level as a Proxy of CO₂ Exchange in the West Siberian Boreal Bog by Danil V. Ilyasov, Anastasia V. Meshcheryakova, Mikhail V. Glagolev, Iuliia V. Kupriianova, Alexandr A. Kaverin, Alexandr F. Sabrekov, Mikhail F. Kulyabin, Elena D. Lapshina

“…According to the results of mathematical modeling, the best proxy for GEE, in addition to photosynthetically active radiation and soil surface temperature, was the aboveground phytomass of vascular plants (Ph_V), and for R_eco—Ph_V and the mass of the plant litter of vascular plants.…”
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Repeatedly Northwards and Upwards: Southern African Grasslands Fuel the Colonization of the African Sky Islands in <i>Helichrysum</i> (Compositae) by Carme Blanco-Gavaldà, Mercè Galbany-Casals, Alfonso Susanna, Santiago Andrés-Sánchez, Randall J. Bayer, Christian Brochmann, Glynis V. Cron, Nicola G. Bergh, Núria Garcia-Jacas, Abel Gizaw, Martha Kandziora, Filip Kolář, Javier López-Alvarado, Frederik Leliaert, Rokiman Letsara, Lucía D. Moreyra, Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison, Roswitha Schmickl, Cristina Roquet

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African Mountain Thistles: Three New Genera in the <i>Carduus-Cirsium</i> Group by Lucía D. Moreyra, Núria Garcia-Jacas, Cristina Roquet, Jennifer R. Ackerfield, Turan Arabacı, Carme Blanco-Gavaldà, Christian Brochmann, Juan Antonio Calleja, Tuncay Dirmenci, Kazumi Fujikawa, Mercè Galbany-Casals, Tiangang Gao, Abel Gizaw, Javier López-Alvarado, Iraj Mehregan, Roser Vilatersana, Bayram Yıldız, Frederik Leliaert, Alexey P. Seregin, Alfonso Susanna

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Benthic non-indigenous species among indigenous species and their habitat preferences in Puck Bay (southern Baltic Sea)* This work was carried out under the ‘Ecosystem Approach to... by Urszula Janas, Halina Kendzierska

“…The number of native taxa was significantly higher on a sea bed covered with vascular plants than on an unvegetated one, but no such relationship was found for their abundance. …”
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The evolution of root hairs and rhizoids. by Jones, V, Dolan, L

“…Root hairs form on the surface of roots of sporophytes (the multicellular diploid phase of the life cycle) in vascular plants. Rhizoids develop on the free-living gametophytes of vascular and non-vascular plants and on both gametophytes and sporophytes of the extinct rhyniophytes. …”

Bryophytes in a Changing World: Understanding Distribution Patterns, Risks, and Conservation by Lukáš Číhal

“…Bryophytes are a group of small, non-vascular plants that include mosses, liverworts, and hornworts [...]…”
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