Kapoor Bhuvnesh, Kumar Pankaj, Verma Vipasha, Irfan Mohammad, Sharma Rajnish, Bhargava Bhavya
Department of Biotechnology, Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Agrotechnology Division, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India.
J Evol Biol. 2023 Jan;36(1):5-14. doi: 10.1111/jeb.14062. Epub 2022 Sep 9.
The transition of plants from water to land is considered one of the most significant events in the evolution of life on Earth. The colonization of land by plants, accompanied by their morphological, physiological and developmental changes, resulted in plant biodiversity. Besides significantly influencing oxygen levels in the air and on land, plants manufacture organic matter from CO and water with the help of sunlight, paving the way for the diversification of nonplant lineages ranging from microscopic organisms to animals. Land plants regulate the climate by adjusting total biomass and energy flow. At the genetic level, these innovations are achieved through the rearrangement of pre-existing genetic information. Advances in genome sequencing technology are revamping our understanding of plant evolution. This study highlights the morphological and genomic innovations that allow plants to integrate life on Earth.
植物从水生向陆生的转变被认为是地球生命进化中最重要的事件之一。植物在陆地上的定殖，伴随着其形态、生理和发育上的变化，带来了植物生物多样性。植物除了对空气中和陆地上的氧气水平有显著影响外，还借助阳光将二氧化碳和水合成有机物质，为从微生物到动物等非植物谱系的多样化发展铺平了道路。陆地植物通过调节总生物量和能量流来调节气候。在基因层面，这些创新是通过对已有遗传信息的重新排列实现的。基因组测序技术的进步正在改变我们对植物进化的理解。本研究突出了使植物能够融入地球生命的形态和基因组创新。
