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Convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments
Plants transitioned from an aquatic to a terrestrial lifestyle during their evolution. On land, fluctuations on water availability in the environment became one of the major problems they encountered. The appearance of morpho‐physiological adaptations to cope with and tolerate water loss from the ce...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8518057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34196969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pce.14143 |
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author | Artur, Mariana A. S. Kajala, Kaisa |
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description | Plants transitioned from an aquatic to a terrestrial lifestyle during their evolution. On land, fluctuations on water availability in the environment became one of the major problems they encountered. The appearance of morpho‐physiological adaptations to cope with and tolerate water loss from the cells was undeniably useful to survive on dry land. Some of these adaptations, such as carbon concentrating mechanisms (CCMs), desiccation tolerance (DT) and root impermeabilization, appeared in multiple plant lineages. Despite being crucial for evolution on land, it has been unclear how these adaptations convergently evolved in the various plant lineages. Recent advances on whole genome and transcriptome sequencing are revealing that co‐option of genes and gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is a common feature underlying the convergent evolution of these adaptations. In this review, we address how the study of CCMs and DT has provided insight into convergent evolution of GRNs underlying plant adaptation to dry environments, and how these insights could be applied to currently emerging understanding of evolution of root impermeabilization through different barrier cell types. We discuss examples of co‐option, conservation and innovation of genes and GRNs at the cell, tissue and organ levels revealed by recent phylogenomic (comparative genomic) and comparative transcriptomic studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-85180572021-10-21 Convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments Artur, Mariana A. S. Kajala, Kaisa Plant Cell Environ Reviews Plants transitioned from an aquatic to a terrestrial lifestyle during their evolution. On land, fluctuations on water availability in the environment became one of the major problems they encountered. The appearance of morpho‐physiological adaptations to cope with and tolerate water loss from the cells was undeniably useful to survive on dry land. Some of these adaptations, such as carbon concentrating mechanisms (CCMs), desiccation tolerance (DT) and root impermeabilization, appeared in multiple plant lineages. Despite being crucial for evolution on land, it has been unclear how these adaptations convergently evolved in the various plant lineages. Recent advances on whole genome and transcriptome sequencing are revealing that co‐option of genes and gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is a common feature underlying the convergent evolution of these adaptations. In this review, we address how the study of CCMs and DT has provided insight into convergent evolution of GRNs underlying plant adaptation to dry environments, and how these insights could be applied to currently emerging understanding of evolution of root impermeabilization through different barrier cell types. We discuss examples of co‐option, conservation and innovation of genes and GRNs at the cell, tissue and organ levels revealed by recent phylogenomic (comparative genomic) and comparative transcriptomic studies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2021-07-12 2021-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8518057/ /pubmed/34196969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pce.14143 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Plant, Cell & Environment published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Reviews Artur, Mariana A. S. Kajala, Kaisa Convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments |
title | Convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments |
title_full | Convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments |
title_fullStr | Convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments |
title_full_unstemmed | Convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments |
title_short | Convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments |
title_sort | convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments |
topic | Reviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8518057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34196969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pce.14143 |
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