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  • Fay-Wei Li recalls a 1966 paper by Klekowski and Baker, who built on their observation that homosporous pteridophytes have many more chromosomes than heterosporous lineages to generate hypotheses on the evolutionary impact of polyploidy.

    • Fay-Wei Li
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Genetics
    Volume: 24, P: 737

  • Phytochromes are red-light photoreceptors in plants that regulate key life cycle processes, yet their evolutionary origins are not well understood. Using transcriptomic and genomic data, Li et al.find that canonical plant phytochromes originated in a common ancestor of land plants and charophyte algae.

    • Fay-Wei Li
    • Michael Melkonian
    • Sarah Mathews
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 6, P: 1-12

  • Some plants use nectar to attract ant bodyguards. Here, the authors use a cross-kingdom phylogenetic approach to find that ferns and angiosperms evolved nectaries in the Cretaceous, coinciding with ant evolution, and that ferns recruited ant-bodyguards from existing ant-angiosperm partnerships.

    • Jacob S. Suissa
    • Fay-Wei Li
    • Corrie S. Moreau
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-12

  • The genome of the model fern species Ceratopteris richardii reveals a history of remarkably dynamic genome evolution, including rapid changes in genome content and structure following the most recent whole-genome duplication approximately 60 million years ago.

    • D. Blaine Marchant
    • Guang Chen
    • Zhong-Hua Chen
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 8, P: 1038-1051

  • Despite extensive characterization of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in terrestrial angiosperms, little attention has been given to aquatics and early diverging land plants. Here, the authors assemble the genome of Isoetes taiwanensis and investigate the genetic factors driving CAM in this aquatic lycophyte.

    • David Wickell
    • Li-Yaung Kuo
    • Fay-Wei Li
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-13

  • Phycobilisomes are megacomplexes in cyanobacteria that capture light. Here, authors characterize a relict paddle-shaped phycobilisome structure, revealing phycobilisome diversity prior to the development of thylakoids.

    • Han-Wei Jiang
    • Hsiang-Yi Wu
    • Ming-Yang Ho
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-14

  • Kumar and colleagues report cryo-EM structures of Arabidopsis O-fucosyltransferase SPINDLY in its apo and GDP-fucose bound states, revealing distinct active-site features enabling GDP-fucose recognition and surprisingly dynamic conformations that regulate its enzymatic activity.

    • Shivesh Kumar
    • Yan Wang
    • Pei Zhou
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-12

  • The genomes of two fern species, Azolla filiculoides and Salvinia cucullata, are reported and provide insights into fern-specific whole-genome duplications, fern-specific insect-resistant gene evolution and fern–cyanobacterial symbiosis.

    • Fay-Wei Li
    • Paul Brouwer
    • Kathleen M. Pryer
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 4, P: 460-472

  • Phytochrome signaling in the nucleus can activate expression of photosynthesis-associated genes in plastids. Here Yang et al. show that NCP is a dual-targeted protein that promotes phytochrome B localization to photobodies in the nucleus while facilitating PEP polymerase assembly in the plastids.

    • Emily J. Yang
    • Chan Yul Yoo
    • Meng Chen
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-13

  • By sieving through the plant genomic literature for the last 20 years, a study uncovered a disconnection between the research locales and plants’ native ranges. Colonialism, both past and present, might be behind this disparity.

    • Fay-Wei Li
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 7, P: 1542-1543

  • The One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative provides a robust phylogenomic framework for examining green plant evolution that comprises the transcriptomes and genomes of diverse species of green plants.

    • James H. Leebens-Mack
    • Michael S. Barker
    • Gane Ka-Shu Wong
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 574, P: 679-685

  • This Review summarizes the available and missing reference genomes in the seed-free plant lineages, compares the genomic and epigenomic features between seed-free and seed plants, and highlights the model systems of seed-free plants.

    • Péter Szövényi
    • Andika Gunadi
    • Fay-Wei Li
    Reviews
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 7, P: 554-565