Publications by authors named "Wesley K Gerelle"
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- Phylogenetic analyses of bryophytes reveal significant variability in evolutionary relationships among land plants, with some consistency found in a common unrooted tree across studies.
- Despite their complexity, relationships within mosses, liverworts, and hornworts largely align with previous findings, although the results vary depending on the gene sets analyzed.
- Examination of the plastid genomes indicates that while structural changes are minimal among bryophytes, some unexpected traits, like the retention of the tufA locus in certain mosses, challenge previous assumptions about plastome evolution.
The elongation of very-long-chain fatty acids is a conserved process used for the production of many metabolites, including plant cuticular waxes. The elongation of precursors of the most abundant cuticular wax components of some plants, however, is unique in requiring ECERIFERUM2-LIKE (CER2-LIKE) proteins. CER2-LIKEs are a clade within the BAHD superfamily of acyltransferases.
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