Although the red pigments made by flowering plants and liverworts are produced by distinct chemical pathways, here we found that they are induced by homologous complexes of transcription factors. @currentbiology.bsky.social
Kongsted et al. find that, while the red pigments produced in liverworts and seed
plants are distinct, they are regulated by homologous MYB-bHLH transcriptional complexes.
They also find that in liver...
