Date of divergence of mosses and seed plants
| Value | 480 Mya |
|---|---|
| Organism | Plants |
| Reference | Cove DJ et al., The moss Physcomitrella patens: a novel model system for plant development and genomic studies. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2009 Feb2009(2):pdb.emo115. paragraph under heading "Uses of the P. patens model system"PubMed ID20147063 |
| Comments | The common ancestor of mosses, such as P. patens, and seed plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana and pines, lived ~480 million years ago (Mya). For divergence of mosses and flowering plants 400Mya see Iida 2006 PMID 16520337 p.1085 right column 2nd paragraph. See BNID 105200 |
| Entered by | Uri M |
| ID | 106742 |