Algae have land genes Date: July 12, 2018 Source: University of Würzburg Summary: The genome of the algae species Chara braunii has been decoded. It already contains the first genetic ...

Chara algae are ancient plant organisms that are commonly found in freshwater reservoirs and occur, though more rarely, in water bodies with salt water. An unusual feature of this type of algae is ...

Three groups of green algae are evolutionarily closer to land plants than Klebsormidiophyceae, that is, Charophyceae, Coleochaetophyceae and Zygnematophyceae (Figures 1 and 2). Among them, the ...

Hedrich's team now wants to harness the decoded Chara braunii genome to study which ion channels in the algae are responsible for the action potentials. In land plants, glutamate receptor channels ...

It is generally accepted that higher plants evolved from ancestral forms of the modern charophytes. For this reason, we chose the characean alga, Chara corallina Klein ex Willd., em. R.D.W. (C.