Mitsuyasu Hasebe

TL;DR: This comparison reveals genomic changes concomitant with the evolutionary movement to land, including a general increase in gene family complexity; loss of genes associated with aquatic environments; acquisition of genes for tolerating terrestrial stresses; and the development of the auxin and abscisic acid signaling pathways for coordinating multicellular growth and dehydration response.

TL;DR: The genome sequence of the lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii (Selaginella), the first nonseed vascular plant genome reported, is reported, finding that the transition from a gametophytes- to a sporophyte-dominated life cycle required far fewer new genes than the Transition from a non Seed vascular to a flowering plant.

TL;DR: The results suggest that AS2 functions in the transcription of a certain gene(s) in plant nuclei and thereby controls the formation of a symmetric flat leaf lamina and the establishment of a prominent midvein and other patterns of venation.

TL;DR: The haploid transcriptome of P. patens appears to be quite similar to the A. thaliana genome, supporting the evolutionary hypothesis, and revealed that a number of genes are moss specific and were lost in the flowering plant lineage.

TL;DR: It is shown that nucleation requires extant cortical microtubules, onto which cytosolic γ-tubulin is recruited, and that a cytoplasmic γ -tubulin complex shuttles between the cytopLasm and the side of a cortical micro Tubule, and has nucleation activity only when bound to the microtubule.