The sequenced genomes of nonflowering land plants reveal the innovative evolutionary history of peptide signaling.

ABSTRACT: An understanding of land plant evolution is a prerequisite for in-depth knowledge of plant biology. Here we extract and explore information hidden in the increasing number of sequenced plant genomes, from bryophytes to angiosperms, to elucidate a specific biological question-how peptide signaling evolved. To conquer land and cope with changing environmental conditions, plants have gone through transformations that must have required innovations in cell-to-cell communication. We discuss peptides mediating endogenous and exogenous changes by interaction with receptors activating intracellular molecular signaling. Signaling peptides were discovered in angiosperms and operate in tissues and organs such as flowers, seeds, vasculature, and 3D meristems that are not universally conserved across l

SUBMITTER: Furumizu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8462819 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature