Origin and evolution of green plants in the light of key evolutionary events

• 作者: Zhenhua Zhang Xiaoya Ma Yannan Liu Lingxiao Yang Xuan Shi Hao Wang Runjie Diao Bojian Zhong
• 来源期刊: 植物学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（2）
• 所属期刊栏目: Invited Expert Reviews
• 页码范围: 516-535
• 页数: 20页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Green plants (Viridiplantae) are ancient photo-synthetic organisms that thrive both in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems,greatly contributing to the changes in global climates and ecosys-tems.Significant progress has been made to-ward understanding the origin and evolution of green plants,and plant biologists have arrived at the consensus that green plants first originated in marine deep-water environments and later colonized fresh water and dry land.The origin of green plants,colonization of land by plants and rapid radiation of angiosperms are three key evolutionary events during the long history of green plants.However,the comprehensive understanding of evolutionary features and molecular innovations that en-abled green plants to adapt to complex and changeable environments are still limited.Here,we review current knowledge of phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of green plants,and discuss key morphological in-novations and distinct drivers in the evolution of green plants.Ultimately,we highlight funda-mental questions to advance our understanding of the phenotypic novelty,environmental adaptation,and domestication of green plants.