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_id: '17085'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Mosses are a cosmopolitan group of land plants, sister to vascular plants,
    with a high potential for molecular and cell biological research. The species
    Physcomitrium patens has helped gaining better understanding of the biological
    processes of the plant cell, and it has become a central system to understand
    water-to-land plant transition through 2D-to-3D growth transition, regulation
    of asymmetric cell division, shoot apical cell establishment and maintenance,
    phyllotaxis and regeneration. P. patens was the first fully sequenced moss in
    2008, with the latest annotated release in 2018. It has been shown that many gene
    functions and networks are conserved in mosses when compared to angiosperms. Importantly,
    this model organism has a simplified and accessible body structure that facilitates
    close tracking in time and space with the support of live cell imaging set-ups
    and multiple reporter lines. This has become possible thanks to its fully established
    molecular toolkit, with highly efficient PEG-assisted, CRISPR/Cas9 and RNAi transformation
    and silencing protocols, among others. Here we provide examples on how mosses
    exhibit advantages over vascular plants to study several processes and their future
    potential to answer some other outstanding questions in plant cell biology.
acknowledgement: 'The authors would like to thank Dr. Jeroen de Keijzer and Dr. Tijs
  Ketelaar for their thoughtful and detailed review of the manuscript. Also, the funding
  agencies Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, division Horticulture and Propagating
  Material (TKI T&U) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) (reference number: TKILWV20.390)
  for funding JFC and the ERC grant to Prof. J. Friml (reference number: PR1023ERC02)
  for funding HT. The authors would like to sincerely apologise for the literature
  not cited that may be relevant for this chapter and is not present due to space
  constraints.'
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author:
- first_name: Jordi
  full_name: Floriach-Clark, Jordi
  last_name: Floriach-Clark
- first_name: Han
  full_name: Tang, Han
  id: 19BDF720-25A0-11EA-AC6E-928F3DDC885E
  last_name: Tang
  orcid: 0000-0001-6152-6637
- first_name: Viola
  full_name: Willemsen, Viola
  last_name: Willemsen
citation:
  ama: 'Floriach-Clark J, Tang H, Willemsen V. Mosses: Accessible Systems for Plant
    Development Studies. In: Abdurakhmonov IY, ed. <i>Model Organisms in Plant Genetics</i>.
    IntechOpen; 2022. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100535">10.5772/intechopen.100535</a>'
  apa: 'Floriach-Clark, J., Tang, H., &#38; Willemsen, V. (2022). Mosses: Accessible
    Systems for Plant Development Studies. In I. Y. Abdurakhmonov (Ed.), <i>Model
    Organisms in Plant Genetics</i>. IntechOpen. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100535">https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100535</a>'
  chicago: 'Floriach-Clark, Jordi, Han Tang, and Viola Willemsen. “Mosses: Accessible
    Systems for Plant Development Studies.” In <i>Model Organisms in Plant Genetics</i>,
    edited by Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov. IntechOpen, 2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100535">https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100535</a>.'
  ieee: 'J. Floriach-Clark, H. Tang, and V. Willemsen, “Mosses: Accessible Systems
    for Plant Development Studies,” in <i>Model Organisms in Plant Genetics</i>, I.
    Y. Abdurakhmonov, Ed. IntechOpen, 2022.'
  ista: 'Floriach-Clark J, Tang H, Willemsen V. 2022.Mosses: Accessible Systems for
    Plant Development Studies. In: Model Organisms in Plant Genetics. .'
  mla: 'Floriach-Clark, Jordi, et al. “Mosses: Accessible Systems for Plant Development
    Studies.” <i>Model Organisms in Plant Genetics</i>, edited by Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov,
    IntechOpen, 2022, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100535">10.5772/intechopen.100535</a>.'
  short: J. Floriach-Clark, H. Tang, V. Willemsen, in:, I.Y. Abdurakhmonov (Ed.),
    Model Organisms in Plant Genetics, IntechOpen, 2022.
date_created: 2024-05-29T06:35:13Z
date_published: 2022-06-23T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-06-18T17:52:59Z
day: '23'
ddc:
- '580'
department:
- _id: JiFr
doi: 10.5772/intechopen.100535
ec_funded: 1
editor:
- first_name: Ibrokhim Y.
  full_name: Abdurakhmonov, Ibrokhim Y.
  last_name: Abdurakhmonov
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100535
month: '06'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
project:
- _id: 261099A6-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
  call_identifier: H2020
  grant_number: '742985'
  name: Tracing Evolution of Auxin Transport and Polarity in Plants
publication: Model Organisms in Plant Genetics
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781839697500'
publication_status: published
publisher: IntechOpen
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: 'Mosses: Accessible Systems for Plant Development Studies'
type: book_chapter
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
year: '2022'
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