A phenol-enriched cuticle is ancestral to lignin evolution in land plants

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 14713 - 8
• Main Authors: Renault, Hugues, Alber, Annette, Horst, Nelly A., Basilio Lopes, Alexandra, Fich, Eric A., Kriegshauser, Lucie, Wiedemann, Gertrud, Ullmann, Pascaline, Herrgott, Laurence, Erhardt, Mathieu, Pineau, Emmanuelle, Ehlting, Jürgen, Schmitt, Martine, Rose, Jocelyn K. C., Reski, Ralf, Werck-Reichhart, Danièle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 08.03.2017; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 101/58; 14/28; 38; 42/41; 45; 45/70; 631/181/2806; 631/449/2667; 631/449/2669; 64; 82; 82/80; Algae; Ascorbic Acid - metabolism; Biochemistry, Molecular Biology; Biological Evolution; Biology; Biopolymers; Bryopsida - genetics; Bryopsida - metabolism; Cellular Biology; Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System - genetics; Desiccation; Embryophyta; Enzymes; Evolution; Flowers & plants; Gene Knockout Techniques; Humanities and Social Sciences; Life Sciences; Lignin; Lignin - metabolism; Magnoliopsida - metabolism; Membrane Lipids; Metabolism; Molecular biology; Mosses; multidisciplinary; Permeability; Phenols; Phenols - metabolism; Plant Components, Aerial - metabolism; Plants, Genetically Modified; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Vegetal Biology; France; Germany

Lignin, one of the most abundant biopolymers on Earth, derives from the plant phenolic metabolism. It appeared upon terrestrialization and is thought critical for plant colonization of land. Early diverging land plants do not form lignin, but already have elements of its biosynthetic machinery. Here...