Some time ago, we found that the non-vascular Marchantia polymorpha was triggering RNAi-mediated defenses that are confine to the vasculature in vascular plants www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Assessment of the evolution of plant-virus interactions suggests rapid reshaping of plant viromes after land colonization, along with rerouting of general defense responses to newly acquired vascular ...
