Evolution of green plants as deduced from 5S rRNA sequences
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 82 (3), 820-823
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.82.3.820
Abstract
A phylogenic tree for green plants was constructed by comparing 5S rRNA sequences. The tree suggests that the emergence of mosf of the uni- and multicellular green algae such as Chlamydomonas, Spirogyra, Ulva and Chlorella occurred in the early stage of green plant evolution. The branching point of Nitella is a little earlier than that of land plants and much later than that of the above green algae, supporting the view that Nitella-like green algae may be the direct precursor to land plants. The Bryophyta and the Pteridophyta separated from each other after emergence of the Spermatophyta. The result is consistent with the view that the Bryophyta evolved from ferns by degeneration. In the Pteridophyta, Psilotum (whisk fern) separated first, and a little later Lycopodium (club moss) separated from the ancestor common to Equisetum (horsetail) and Dryopteris (fern). This order is in accordance with the classical view. During the Spermatophyta evolution the gymnosperms (Cycas, Ginkgo and Metasequoia were studied here) and the angiosperms (flowering plants) separated, and this was followed by the separation of Metasequoia and Cycas (cycad)/Ginkgo (maidenhair tree) on one branch and various flowering plants on the other.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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