Molecular Evidence for the Early Colonization of Land by Fungi and Plants

By Daniel S. Heckman, David M. Geiser, Brooke R. Eidell, R. L. Stauffer, Natalie L. Kardos, S. Blair Hedges. Science, 2001

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Plant Science

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Genome sequence of the lignocellulose degrading fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium strain RP78 (2004, background): “Discussion It has been proposed that colonization of land by eukaryotes was facilitated by a symbiotic partnership between a photosynthetic organism and a fungus, and that this relationship had far-reaching effects on climate and atmosphere, possibly contributing to the rapid evolution of animals”
Communication in Plants (2006, background): “In fact, roots might prove to be descendents of ancient fungi which, by entering into close association with their symbiotic photoautotrophs, have developed into heterotrophic roots – there are, after all, close resemblances between the anatomies and functions of apices of both rhizomorphs and roots”
ICE‐BINDING PROTEINS FROM SEA ICE DIATOMS (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) 1 (2006, background): “…from fungi is a possibility, as basidiomycotic fungi (which include Lentinula and Typhula), are known to inhabit sea ice (Melnikov 1997, Gunde-Cimerman et al. 2003), and are believed to have arisen hundreds of millions of years before the diatoms (Heckman et al. 2001, Falkowski et al. 2004).”
Host-microbe interactions: shaping the evolution of the plant immune response. (2006, neutral): “However, molecular-clock estimates suggest that land plants evolved more than 700 million years ago (Heckman et al., 2001).”
Culturable bacteria associated with Antarctic lichens: affiliation and psychrotolerance (2009, background): “Mycorrhizal symbioses with plants likely supported the early colonization of land, the evolution of higher plants and vegetation as we know it today from temperate to tropical regions (Pirozynsky and Malloch 1975; Heckman et al. 2001; Schüßler et al. 2001).”
Early life on land and the first terrestrial ecosystems (2013, background): “This timeline suggests a rapid and global development of life on Earth, with life forms adapted to live on the land more than 2,000 Ma before the earliest fossil record of land plants (Heckman et al. 2001; Gensel 2008).”
The first 100 Trichoderma species characterized by molecular data (2006, background): “However, recent phylogenetic reconstructions, such as the Tree of Life project based on nuclear small subunit ribosomal DNA (nSSU rDNA), put fungi and animals as sister clades (Heckman et al. 2001; Taylor et al. 2004).”
A molecular timeline for the origin of photosynthetic eukaryotes. (2004, background): “Given that one or more of these criteria have not been addressed, it is not surprising that molecular clock estimates are often inconsistent with the fossil record (Benton and Ayala 2003; Heckman et al. 2001).”
The timescale of early land plant evolution (2018, neutral): “Estimates for the first bryophyte divergence begin as early as the Cryogenian (65, 66), with further studies suggesting the Ediacaran to late Cambrian (632 Ma to 499 Ma) (67), late Cambrian to late Silurian (490 Ma to 425 Ma) (68), Late Ordovician (458 Ma) (70), and mid-Devonian (383 Ma) (69).”
Molecular taxonomy, origins and evolution of freshwater ascomycetes (2006, methodology): “Sanderson (2003), also showed that the dates proposed by Heckman et al. (2001) to be much earlier, and suggested this might be due to calibration errors and the assumptions of a molecular clock.”
Genomics of the fungal kingdom: Insights into eukaryotic biology (2005, background): “The colonization of land by eukaryotes is thought to have been established through the symbiosis of a fungus and a photosynthesizing organism (Gehrig et al. 1996; Heckman et al. 2001 ).”
The phylogeny of plant and animal pathogens in the Ascomycota (2001, background): “E-mail: berbee@interchange.ubc.ca suggested even more ancient divergence, perhaps as old as 1.2 billion years [ 33 ].”
The plant microbiome (2013, background): “Molecular evidence suggests that their associations with green algae were fundamental to the evolution of land plants about 700 million years ago [6].”