Origin, Conservation and Functional Diversification of the BES1/BZR1 Gene Family During Early Land Plant Terrestrialization in Bryophytes
The results demonstrate that the BES1/BZR1 family originated at an early stage of land plant evolution, followed by lineage-specific gene expansion and divergent transcriptional regulation in bryophytes, and advances the understanding of ancestral BR signaling and stress response modules in the early terrestrial plant...