The Evolution of Plant Body Plans—A Biomechanical Perspective

By Karl J. Niklas. 2000

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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Evolution and diversity of plant cell walls: from algae to flowering plants. (2011, background): “Interestingly, Niklas & Kutschera (89) asserted that land plant multicellularity, together with specific features of their life cycle, is retained from their last common algal ancestors, the CGA, either because they represent a developmental constraint (87) or because they facilitated survival in a ”
On the transfer of fitness from the cell to the multicellular organism (2006, background): “…‘source-sink’ effect (in which somatic cells transfer resources to germ cells which act as a sink) (Bell 1985; Koufopanou and Bell 1993; Solari et al. submitted 2006), and (iv) enhanced uptake of resources and removal of waste by flagellar beating (Niklas 1994, 2000; Solari et al. submitted 2006).”
The Evolution of Multicellularity: A Minor Major Transition? (2007, background): “Although the withincell bottleneck is not as complete as that for nuclei, it can serve to redistribute variation within a cell to variation between cells, and thus between multicellular offspring (Bergstrom & Pritchard 1998, Sekiguchi et al. 2003).”
Directionality in the history of life: diffusion from the left wall or repeated scaling of the right? (2000, background): “Eukaryotic cells are rarely much smaller than one micron in diameter and are commonly tens to hundreds of microns in maximum dimension (e.g., Niklas 1992).”
Size-dependent growth rates in eukaryotic and prokaryotic algae exemplified by green algae and cyanobacteria: comparisons between unicells and colonial growth forms (2006, background): “This is in accordance with the hypothesis (Niklas, 2000) that the colonial growth form represents an evolutionary solution to the problem that is inherent in size-dependent growth: that the growth rate decreases with increasing size.”