Mosses Reveal a Universal Genome‐Cell Size Relationship Across Land Plants Shaped by Shared Evolutionary Pressures

2025/03/27 by Pere Miquel Mir-Rosselló, Jaume Flexas, Marc Carriquí · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Botany and Plant Ecology Studies #Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology #Plant Molecular Biology Research

paper · doi:10.1111/pce.15506

openalex publication_date 2025/03/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

Summary statement The relationship between genome size and cell size is present in all land plants including mosses, and is stronger in smaller cells. This relationship depends on environmental pressures, and affects plants differently depending on their dominant photosynthetic phase.

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