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Rediscovering Chara as a model organism for molecular and evo-devo studies.

Katarina Kurtović, Vojtěch Schmidt, Martina Nehasilová, Stanislav Vosolsobě, Jan Petrášek

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Review in Protoplasma, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Evidence for a COThe New phytologist · 2025
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  8. Conserved carotenoid pigmentation in reproductive organs of Charophyceae.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Katarina KurtovićDepartment of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. kurtovik@natur.cuni.cz.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4047-545X
Vojtěch SchmidtDepartment of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8916-4612
Martina NehasilováDepartment of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Stanislav VosolsoběDepartment of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1180-3250
Jan PetrášekInstitute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6719-2735
Charles University · CZCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Botany · CZ

Funding

Czech Science Foundation 20-13587SGrantová Agentura, Univerzita Karlova 289523Grantová Agentura, Univerzita Karlova 393422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chara has been used as a model for decades in the field of plant physiology, enabling the investigation of fundamental physiological processes. In electrophysiological studies, Chara has been utilized thanks to its large internodal cells that can be easily manipulated. Additionally, Chara played a pioneering role in elucidating the presence and function of the cytoskeleton in cytoplasmic streaming, predating similar findings in terrestrial plants. Its representation considerably declined following the establishment and routine application of genetic transformation techniques in Arabidopsis. Nevertheless, the recent surge in evo-devo studies can be attributed to the whole genome sequencing of the Chara braunii, which has shed light on ancestral traits prevalent in land plants. Surprisingly, the Chara braunii genome encompasses numerous genes that were previously regarded as exclusive to land plants, suggesting their acquisition prior to the colonization of terrestrial habitats. This review summarizes the established methods used to study Chara, while incorporating recent molecular data, to showcase its renewed importance as a model organism in advancing plant evolutionary developmental biology.

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CharaEmbryophytaBiological EvolutionCytoplasmic StreamingPlantsCharaCharophytesModel plantsPlant evolution

Identifiers

PMID37880545
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