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Multidisciplinary studies of the diversity and evolution in river-weeds

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The moss-like river-weeds or Podostemaceae offer a special opportunity to study the diversity and evolution of plants that are adapted to extreme environments. This paper reviews multidisciplinary studies on this subject. Based on field work in the four continents, we discovered many species and several genera that are new components of biodiversity, and revealed the Podostemaceae floras of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. The historical biogeography of the family, i.e., the change in distribution in space and time, is characterized by a few dispersals between continents, followed by diversification within each continent. Local species may be derived from parts of separated populations of parental species, which consequently are paraphyletic. The remarkable morphological adaptations of Podostemaceae include the development of the horizontal axis in plant body, with which the plants adhere to rock surfaces under violent current. The vertical axis is reduced or lost and the horizontal axis develops in the embryo and seedling. We also found saltational organ-level variation, such as presence or absence of shoot, shoot apical meristem, root, and root cap; the form of shoot and root; the mode of root branching and leaf production; and the number of cotyledons. Morphological evolution may not be always adaptive to the habitats, which are rocks periodically submerged across the distribution range. Analyses of shoot regulatory gene expression found that, in contrast to the expression pattern in primitive species with ordinary shoots, which is comparable with Arabidopsis, the unique pattern in derived species may result in ‘fuzzy’ morphology of the shoot and leaf. Finally, problems for future study are pointed out.

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I thank many colleagues in Japan and abroad for collaboration on the studies of Podostemaceae, in particular, S. Koi, N. Katayama, and Y. Hirayama, my coworkers in field and lab. This paper is a product of those collaborative studies. Thanks are also due to N. Katayama, S. Koi and H. Okada for their useful comments on the manuscript, to N. Katayama for her help with drawing Fig. 6, and D. E. Boufford for his linguistic check of the manuscript. This study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 25291091.

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Kato, M. Multidisciplinary studies of the diversity and evolution in river-weeds. J Plant Res 129, 397–410 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-016-0801-8

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