THE EVOLUTION OF BODY FORM IN BRYOPHYTES
THE EVOLUTION OF BODY FORM IN BRYOPHYTES
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DOI:
10.1002/9781118305881.ch2
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发表时间:
2013-01-01
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Buck, William R.
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Goffinet, Bernard;Buck, William R.
Bryophytes compose a paraphyletic group of land plants that mark the successful transition to land and paved the way for the evolution of plants with highly differentiated vascular tissues and multiple sporangia. Like all embryophytes, bryophytes follow a life cycle of alternating haploid and diploid generations, and hence, rely on the same fundamental set of genetic tools to develop their body. The vegetative plant of bryophytes is always the sex-bearing gametophyte, and upon fertilization, the embryo develops into a short-lived, unbranched sporophyte that remains attached to the maternal plant. Over the last 400 million years, bryophytes have undergone continuous and sometimes rapid diversification, leading to nearly 20 000 species exhibiting a broad range of vegetative architecture based on a simple modular Bauplan and critical innovations enhancing spore dispersal through time and space, and thereby insuring their persistence and ecological success.