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Plant Evolution: Divergent Plants, Divergent Functions for C1HDZ Orthologs

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Ortholog identification inferred by phylogenetic analyses does not always correlate with functional conservation. The recent functional characterization of the C1HDZ transcription factor in the early-diverging land plant Marchantia polymorpha reveals… Click to show full abstract

Ortholog identification inferred by phylogenetic analyses does not always correlate with functional conservation. The recent functional characterization of the C1HDZ transcription factor in the early-diverging land plant Marchantia polymorpha reveals its role in biotic stress responses, contrary to its orthologs in flowering plants.

Keywords: divergent functions; plant; plant evolution; divergent plants; plants divergent; evolution divergent

Journal Title: Current Biology
Year Published: 2020

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