Because of their prominent roles in plant development, transcription factors (TF) play central roles as drivers of innovation in the evolution of the green lineage (viridiplantae). The advent of massive sequencing combined with comparative genetics/genomics allows a rigorous investigation of how TF families have contributed to plant diversification from charophyte algae to bryophytes to angiosperms. Here, we review recent progress on TF family reconstruction and the identification of distantly related TFs present throughout the evolutionary timeline from algae to angiosperms. These data provide examples of contrasting evolutionary trajectories of TF families and illustrate how conserved TFs adopt diverse roles over the course of evolution.

中文翻译：

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植物转录因子的相反进化轨迹。

由于其在植物发育中的重要作用，转录因子（TF）在绿色谱系（viridiplantae）的进化中起创新驱动作用。大规模测序与比较遗传学/基因组学相结合的出现，使得人们可以对TF家族如何促进从嗜藻藻类到苔藓植物再到被子植物的植物多样化做出严格的研究。在这里，我们回顾了TF家族重建的最新进展以及从藻类到被子植物整个进化过程中存在的远距离相关TF的鉴定。这些数据提供了TF家族进化轨迹的对比示例，并说明了保守TF在进化过程中如何扮演多种角色。