# Archaeplastida > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Archaeplastida > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Archaeplastida.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeplastida > Source revision: 1356043831 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Clade of eukaryotes containing land plants and some algae}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{long fossil range|1600|0|earliest=1600|[Calymmian](/source/Calymmian) – [Present](/source/Holocene)}} | image = Sprague River (Klamath County, Oregon scenic images) (klaDA0073).jpg | image_upright = 1.2 | image_caption = [Conifer](/source/Conifer) [trees](/source/trees), [grass](/source/grass)es, [algae](/source/algae), and [shrub](/source/shrub)s in and around [Sprague River, Oregon](/source/Sprague_River_(Oregon)) | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Archaeplastida | authority = Adl ''et al.'', 2005 | subdivision_ranks = Subgroups | subdivision = * [Rhodaria](/source/Rhodaria_(protist_clade)){{Cite journal |last=Cavalier-Smith |first=Thomas |date=2022-05-01 |title=Ciliary transition zone evolution and the root of the eukaryote tree: implications for opisthokont origin and classification of kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi |journal=Protoplasma |language=en |volume=259 |issue=3 |pages=487–593 |doi=10.1007/s00709-021-01665-7 |issn=1615-6102 |pmc=9010356 |pmid=34940909 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2022Prpls.259..487C }}{{Cite journal |last1=Yazaki |first1=Euki |last2=Yabuki |first2=Akinori |last3=Imaizumi |first3=Ayaka |last4=Kume |first4=Keitaro |last5=Hashimoto |first5=Tetsuo |last6=Inagaki |first6=Yuji |date=2022-04-13 |title=The closest lineage of Archaeplastida is revealed by phylogenomics analyses that include Microheliella maris |journal=Open Biology |volume=12 |issue=4 |article-number=210376 |doi=10.1098/rsob.210376 |doi-access=free|pmc=9006020 |pmid=35414259}}{{Cite journal |last=Seenivasan |first=Ramkumar |last2=Sausen |first2=Nicole |last3=Medlin |first3=Linda K. |last4=Melkonian |first4=Michael |date=2013-03-26 |title=Picomonas judraskeda Gen. Et Sp. Nov.: The First Identified Member of the Picozoa Phylum Nov., a Widespread Group of Picoeukaryotes, Formerly Known as 'Picobiliphytes' |url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0059565 |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=8 |issue=3 |article-number=e59565 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0059565 |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=3608682 |pmid=23555709 |doi-access=free}} ** [Picozoa](/source/Picozoa) ** [Rhodelphidia](/source/Rhodelphis) ** [Rhodophyta](/source/Rhodophyta) * [Glaucophyta](/source/Glaucophyta) * [Viridiplantae](/source/Viridiplantae) (green plants) | synonyms = * Plantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981{{cite journal | last1=Cavalier-Smith | first1=T. | year=1981 | title=Eukaryote Kingdoms: Seven or Nine?". | journal=BioSystems | volume=14 | issue=3–4| pages=461–481 | doi=10.1016/0303-2647(81)90050-2 | pmid=7337818| bibcode=1981BiSys..14..461C }} * Primoplastobiota Reviers, 2002{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} * Primoplantae Palmer et al. 2004 }} '''Archaeplastida''' (pronounced {{IPAc-en|ɑːr|k|ɪ|'|p|l|ae|s|t|ɪ|d|ə}}) or '''archaeplastids''', sometimes also regarded as the [kingdom](/source/kingdom_(biology)) [Plantae](/source/Plant) ''[sensu lato](/source/sensu_lato)'' ("in a broad sense"), are a large group of [eukaryote](/source/eukaryote)s comprising the major [clade](/source/clade)s [Viridiplantae](/source/Viridiplantae) ([green algae](/source/green_algae) and [land plant](/source/embryophyte)s) and [Rhodophyta](/source/Rhodophyta) (red algae), as well as the minor [division](/source/Division_(botany)) [Glaucophyta](/source/Glaucophyta) ("grey algae").{{cite journal |last1=Ball |first1=S. |last2=Colleoni |first2=C. |others=a, U.; Raj, J.N.; Tirtiaux, C. |title=The evolution of glycogen and starch metabolism in eukaryotes gives molecular clues to understand the establishment of plastid endosymbiosis |journal=Journal of Experimental Botany |volume=62 |issue=6 |pages=1775–1801 |date=January 2011 |pmid=21220783 |doi=10.1093/jxb/erq411 |doi-access=free }} While the vast majority of archaeplastids are [autotroph](/source/autotroph)s, the group also includes [heterotroph](/source/heterotroph)ic lineages such as the predatorial (eukaryotrophic) [flagellates](/source/flagellate) [Rhodelphidia](/source/Rhodelphis), and probably also the microscopic [picoplankton](/source/picoplankton) [Picozoa](/source/Picozoa),{{Cite web |url=https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/picozoans-are-algae-after-all-study-68741 |title=Picozoans Are Algae After All: Study {{!}} The Scientist Magazine® |work=The Scientist Magazine® |access-date=2021-05-10 |archive-date=2022-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107095249/https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/picozoans-are-algae-after-all-study-68741 }} both may be [sister](/source/sister_taxon) to Rhodophyta and altogether forming the larger solid clade [Rhodaria](/source/Rhodaria_(protist_clade)). With the exception of the picozoans, archaeplastids are all [primary algae](/source/primary_algae) whose [cell](/source/cell_(biology))s have [pigment](/source/pigment)-bearing [membrane-bound organelle](/source/membrane-bound_organelle)s called [plastid](/source/plastid)s, and most of their plastids contain the red/blue light-sensitive [photopigment](/source/photopigment) [chlorophyll](/source/chlorophyll), which acts as the core component of [oxygenic photosynthesis](/source/oxygenic_photosynthesis) [reaction center](/source/reaction_center)s. These chlorophyllic plastids, known as [chloroplast](/source/chloroplast)s, are surrounded by two [biological membrane](/source/biological_membrane)s, suggesting that they were [endosymbiont](/source/endosymbiont)s evolved directly from [phagocytosis](/source/phagocytosis) of [cyanobacteria](/source/cyanobacteria), which did not result in [intracellular digestion](/source/intracellular_digestion) but instead achieved [mutualistic](/source/mutualism_(biology)) [symbiosis](/source/symbiosis) within the [endomembrane system](/source/endomembrane_system).{{Cite journal |last1=Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Science's |last2=Tikhonenkov |first2=Denis V. |date=2020 |title=Predatory flagellates – the new recently discovered deep branches of the eukaryotic tree and their evolutionary and ecological significance|url=http://www.zin.ru/journals/protistology/num14_1/tikhonenkov_protistology_14-1.pdf |journal=Protistology |volume=14 |issue=1 |doi=10.21685/1680-0826-2020-14-1-2|doi-access=free }} In contrast, other photosynthetic [algae](/source/algae), besides the [amoeboid](/source/amoeboid) [rhizaria](/source/rhizaria)n genus ''[Paulinella](/source/Paulinella)'' (which also obtained [cyanobiont](/source/cyanobiont)s directly, but independently and much later), are [secondary algae](/source/secondary_algae) with chloroplasts surrounded by three or four membranes, suggesting they were indirectly acquired via phagocytosis and subsequent endosymbiosis of archaeplastids (red or green algae) or other secondary algae,{{#tag:ref|The exceptional two plastid membranes of the [stramenopile](/source/stramenopiles) alga ''[Chrysoparadoxa](/source/Chrysoparadoxa)'' are probably the result of secondary reduction.{{cite journal |last1=Wetherbee |first1=Richard |last2=Jackson |first2=Christopher J. |last3=Repetti |first3=Sonja I. |last4=Clementson |first4=Lesley A. |last5=Costa |first5=Joana F. |last6=van de Meene |first6=Allison |last7=Crawford |first7=Simon |last8=Verbruggen |first8=Heroen |title=The golden paradox – a new heterokont lineage with chloroplasts surrounded by two membranes |journal=Journal of Phycology |date=9 December 2018 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=257–278 |doi=10.1111/jpy.12822 |pmid=30536815 |hdl=11343/233613 |s2cid=54477112 |hdl-access=free }}|group="note"|name="Chrysoparadoxa"}} in what can be considered a form of permanent [kleptoplasty](/source/kleptoplasty). Unlike red and green algae, glaucophytes are not known to be ever involved in such secondary endosymbiosis events.[https://books.google.com/books?id=0-PIBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22no+endosymbiotic+events+from+Glaucophyta+are+reported%22&pg=PA29 Handbook of Marine Microalgae: Biotechnology Advances] Archaeplastid cells typically lack [centriole](/source/centriole)s and have [mitochondria](/source/mitochondria) with flat [crista](/source/crista)e. They usually have a [cell wall](/source/cell_wall) that contains [cellulose](/source/cellulose), and photosynthesized [carbohydrate](/source/carbohydrate)s are stored intracellularly in the form of [starch](/source/starch), but these characteristics are also shared with other eukaryotes. Different archaeplastid clades differ slightly in cellular [biochemistry](/source/biochemistry). Red algae are pigmented with [chlorophyll ''a''](/source/chlorophyll_a) and [phycobiliprotein](/source/phycobiliprotein)s like most cyanobacteria, and accumulate starch ''outside'' the chloroplasts. Green algae, land plants ([embryophyte](/source/embryophyte)s) and the minor [basal](/source/basal_(phylogenetics)) group [Prasinodermophyta](/source/Prasinodermophyta) – together known as Viridiplantae ([Latin](/source/Latin) for "green plants") or Chloroplastida – are pigmented with both chlorophyll ''a'' and [chlorophyll ''b''](/source/chlorophyll_b), but lack phycobiliproteins, and starch is accumulated ''inside'' the chloroplasts.{{cite journal|title=The unique features of starch metabolism in red algae |first1=R. |last1=Viola |first2=P. |last2=Nyvall |first3=M. |last3=Pedersén |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|volume=268 |issue=1474|date=2001|pages=1417–1422 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2001.1644|pmid=11429143|pmc=1088757}} The glaucophytes have typical cyanobacterial pigments like those of red algae, but their plastids (called [cyanelle](/source/cyanelle)s) differ in having a [peptidoglycan](/source/peptidoglycan) outer layer.{{cite journal |first= S.M. |last=Adl |s2cid=8060916 |title=The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists |journal=Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology |year=2005 |volume=52 |issue=5 |pages=399–451 |doi= 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00053.x |pmid=16248873 |display-authors=etal|doi-access=free }} The main evidence that archaeplastids form a [monophyletic](/source/monophyletic) group comes from [genetic studies](/source/genetic_studies), which indicate their plastids likely had a single origin. This evidence is however disputed,{{cite journal |author=Parfrey. L. W. |author2=Barbero, E. |author3=Lasser, E |title=Evaluating support for the current classification of eukaryotic diversity |journal=PLOS Genetics |volume=2 |issue=12 |article-number=e220 |date=December 2006 |pmid=17194223 |pmc=1713255 |doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.0020220 |display-authors=etal |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |pmc= 2440802 |doi= 10.1371/journal.pone.0002621 |date=July 2008 |author= Kim, E |author2=Graham, L. E. |title= EEF2 analysis challenges the monophyly of Archaeplastida and Chromalveolata |volume= 3 |issue= 7 |article-number= e2621 |pmid= 18612431 |journal= PLOS ONE |editor1-last= Redfield |editor1-first= Rosemary Jeanne|bibcode= 2008PLoSO...3.2621K |doi-access= free }} and based on the evidence to date, it is not possible to definitively confirm or refute alternative evolutionary scenarios to a single [primary endosymbiosis](/source/chloroplast) event.{{cite journal | last1=Mackiewicz | first1=P. | last2=Gagat | first2=P. | year=2014 | title=Monophyly of Archaeplastida supergroup and relationships among its lineages in the light of phylogenetic and phylogenomic studies. Are we close to a consensus?. | journal=Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae | volume=83 | issue=4| pages=263–280 | doi=10.5586/asbp.2014.044| bibcode=2014AcSBP..83..263M | doi-access=free }} Photosynthetic organisms with plastids of indirect origin (such as [brown algae](/source/brown_algae), [euglenid](/source/euglenid)s, [diatom](/source/diatom)s and [dinoflagellate](/source/dinoflagellate)s) do not belong to Archaeplastida and are instead grouped into numerous other [protist classification](/source/protist_classification)s, making the term "algae" a rather vague [polyphyletic](/source/polyphyletic) group. Archaeplastida should not be confused with the older and obsolete name Archiplastideae, which refers to [cyanobacteria](/source/cyanobacteria) and other groups of bacteria.Copeland, H. F. (1956). ''The Classification of Lower Organisms''. Palo Alto: Pacific Books, p. 29, [https://archive.org/stream/ost-biology-classificationof00cope/classificationof00cope#page/n47/mode/2up].{{cite journal | last1=Bessey | first1=C. E. | year=1907 | title=A Synopsis of Plant Phyla | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/94530#page/329/mode/1up | journal=Univ. Nebraska Studies | volume=7 | pages=275–358 }} ==Taxonomy== {{See also|Eukaryote#Phylogeny}} The consensus in 2005, when the group consisting of the glaucophytes and red and green algae and land plants was named 'Archaeplastida', was that it was a [clade](/source/clade), i.e. was [monophyletic](/source/monophyletic). Many studies published since then have provided evidence in agreement.{{cite journal|title=Phylogenomics Reshuffles the Eukaryotic Supergroups|author=Burki, Fabien |author2=Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi|author3=Marianne Minge|author4=Åsmund Skjæveland|author5=Sergey I. Nikolaev|author6=Kjetill S. Jakobsen|author7= Jan Pawlowski|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=2|issue=8|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0000790|pmc=1949142|pmid=17726520|year=2007|article-number=e790|editor1-last=Butler|editor1-first=Geraldine|bibcode=2007PLoSO...2..790B|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last1=Burki |first1=F. |last2=Inagaki |year=2009 |first2=Y. |last3=Brate |first3=J. |last4=Archibald |first4=J. M. |last5=Keeling |first5=P. J. |last6=Cavalier-Smith |first6=T. |title=Large-Scale Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal That Two Enigmatic Protist Lineages, Telonemia and Centroheliozoa, Are Related to Photosynthetic Chromalveolates |journal=Genome Biology and Evolution |volume=1 |pages=231–238 |doi=10.1093/gbe/evp022 |pmid=20333193 |pmc=2817417|display-authors=etal}}{{Cite journal|last=Cavalier-Smith |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Cavalier-Smith |year=2009 |title=Kingdoms Protozoa and Chromista and the eozoan root of the eukaryotic tree |journal=Biology Letters|volume=6 |pages=342–345 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2009.0948 |pmid=20031978 |pmc=2880060|issue=3}}{{Cite journal|last1=Rogozin |first1=I. B. |last2=Basu |first2=M. K.|last3=Csürös |first3=M.|last4=Koonin|first4=E. V. |year=2009 |title=Analysis of Rare Genomic Changes Does Not Support the Unikont–Bikont Phylogeny and Suggests Cyanobacterial Symbiosis as the Point of Primary Radiation of Eukaryotes |journal=Genome Biology and Evolution|pmid=20333181 |volume=1|pmc=2817406|pages=99–113 |doi=10.1093/gbe/evp011 |name-list-style=amp }} Other studies, though, have suggested that the group is [paraphyletic](/source/paraphyletic).{{cite journal | doi=10.1126/science.290.5493.972 | title=A Kingdom-Level Phylogeny of Eukaryotes Based on Combined Protein Data | date=2000 | last1=Baldauf | first1=Sandra L. | last2=Roger | first2=A. J. | last3=Wenk-Siefert | first3=I. | last4=Doolittle | first4=W. F. | journal=Science | volume=290 | issue=5493 | pages=972–977 | pmid=11062127 | bibcode=2000Sci...290..972B }}Lipscomb, Diana. 1991. Broad classification: the kingdoms and the protozoa. In: Parasitic Protozoa, Vol. 1, 2nd ed., J.P. Kreier, J.R. Baker (eds.), pp. 81-136. Academic Press, San Diego.{{cite journal |author=Palmgren M, Sørensen DM, Hallström BM, Säll T, Broberg K |title=Evolution of P2A and P5A ATPases: ancient gene duplications and the red algal connection to green plants revisited |journal=Physiol. Plant. |volume=168 |issue=3 |pages=630–647 |date=August 2019 |pmid=31268560 |doi=10.1111/ppl.13008 |pmc=7065118 }} To date, the situation appears unresolved, but a strong signal for Plantae (Archaeplastida) monophyly has been demonstrated in a recent study (with an enrichment of red algal genes). The assumption made here is that Archaeplastida is a valid clade. Various names have been given to the group. Some authors have simply referred to the group as plants or Plantae.{{cite journal |author=T. Cavalier-Smith |title=Eukaryote Kingdoms: Seven or Nine? |journal=BioSystems |year=1981 |volume=14 |pages=461–481 |doi=10.1016/0303-2647(81)90050-2 |pmid=7337818 |issue=3–4|bibcode=1981BiSys..14..461C }}{{cite journal |first= Debashish |last= Bhattacharya |author2= Yoon, Hwan Su|author3= Hackett, Jeremiah |title= Photosynthetic eukaryotes unite: endosymbiosis connects the dots |journal= BioEssays |year= 2003 |volume= 26 |pages= 50–60 |doi= 10.1002/bies.10376 |pmid= 14696040 |issue= 1}} However, the name Plantae is ambiguous, since it has also been applied to less inclusive [clade](/source/clade)s, such as [Viridiplantae](/source/Viridiplantae) and [embryophyte](/source/embryophyte)s. To distinguish, the larger group is sometimes known as Plantae ''sensu lato'' ("plants in the broad sense"). To avoid ambiguity, other names have been proposed. Primoplantae, which appeared in 2004, seems to be the first new name suggested for this group.{{cite journal |author1=Palmer, Jeffrey D. |author2=Soltis, Douglas E. |author3=Chase, Mark W. |title=The plant tree of life: an overview and some points of view |journal=American Journal of Botany |year=2004 |volume=91 |pages=1437–1445 |doi=10.3732/ajb.91.10.1437 |issue=10 |pmid=21652302|doi-access=free |bibcode=2004AmJB...91.1437P }} Another name applied to this node is Plastida, defined as the clade sharing "plastids of primary (direct prokaryote) origin [as] in ''[Magnolia virginiana](/source/Magnolia_virginiana)'' Linnaeus 1753".{{cite journal |first= A. G. B. |last= Simpson |title= Highest-level taxa within Eukaryotes |journal= First International Phylogenetic Nomenclature Meeting. Paris, July 6–9 |year= 2004}} Although many studies have suggested the Archaeplastida form a [monophyletic](/source/monophyly) group,{{cite journal |author=Vinogradov S. N. |author2=Fernández, I. |author3=Hoogewijs, D. |author4=Arredondo-Peter, R. |title=Phylogenetic Relationships of 3/3 and 2/2 Hemoglobins in Archaeplastida Genomes to Bacterial and Other Eukaryote Hemoglobins |journal=Molecular Plant |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=42–58 |date=October 2010 |pmid=20952597 |doi=10.1093/mp/ssq040 |doi-access=free }} a 2009 paper argues that they are in fact [paraphyletic](/source/paraphyly).{{cite journal |author=Nozaki, H. |author2=Maruyama, S.|author3= Matsuzaki, M.|author4= Nakada, T.|author5= Kato, S.|author6= Misawa, K. |title=Phylogenetic positions of Glaucophyta, green plants (Archaeplastida) and Haptophyta (Chromalveolata) as deduced from slowly evolving nuclear genes |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=53 |issue=3 |pages=872–80 |date=December 2009 |pmid=19698794 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2009.08.015 |bibcode=2009MolPE..53..872N }} The enrichment of novel red algal genes in a recent study, however, demonstrates a strong signal for Plantae (Archaeplastida) monophyly and an equally strong signal of gene sharing history between the red/green algae and other lineages.{{Cite journal |year=2011 |issue=4 |title=Red and green algal monophyly and extensive gene sharing found in a rich repertoire of red algal genes |journal=Current Biology |volume=21 |pages=328–333 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2011.01.037 |pmid=21315598 |author1=Chan, C. X. |author2=Yang, E. C. |author3=Banerjee, T. |author4=Yoon, H. S. |author5=Martone, P. T. |author6=Estevez, J. M. |author7=Bhattacharya, D. |s2cid=7162977 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2011CBio...21..328C }} This study provides insight on how rich mesophilic red algal gene data are crucial for testing controversial issues in eukaryote evolution and for understanding the complex patterns of gene inheritance in protists. The name Archaeplastida was proposed in 2005 by a large international group of authors (Adl ''et al.''), who aimed to produce a classification for the [eukaryote](/source/eukaryote)s which took into account morphology, biochemistry, and phylogenetics, and which had "some stability in the near term." They rejected the use of formal taxonomic ranks in favour of a hierarchical arrangement where the clade names do not signify rank. Thus, the phylum name 'Glaucophyta' and the class name 'Rhodophyceae' appear at the same level in their classification. The divisions proposed for the Archaeplastida are shown below in both tabular and [diagrammatic form](/source/diagrammatic_form). '''Archaeplastida''': [[File:Glaucocystis sp.jpg|thumb|upright|The [glaucophyte](/source/glaucophyte) ''[Glaucocystis](/source/Glaucocystis)'' ]] * [Glaucophyta](/source/Glaucophyte) Skuja, 1954 (Glaucocystophyta Kies & Kremer, 1986) – glaucophytes :*Glaucophytes are a small group of freshwater single-celled algae. Their plastids, called cyanelles, have a [peptidoglycan](/source/peptidoglycan) layer, making them more similar to cyanobacteria than those of the remaining Archaeplastida. [[File:Laurencia.jpg|thumb|upright|The [rhodophyte](/source/Rhodophyta) ''[Laurencia](/source/Laurencia)'']] * [Rhodophyceae](/source/Rhodophyta) Thuret, 1855, emend. Rabenhorst, 1863, emend. Adl ''et al.'', 2005 (Rhodophyta Wettstein 1901) – red algae ::Red algae form one of the largest groups of algae. Most are seaweeds, being multicellular and marine. Their red colour comes from [phycobiliprotein](/source/phycobiliprotein)s, used as [accessory pigment](/source/accessory_pigment)s in light capture for photosynthesis. * [Chloroplastida](/source/Viridiplantae) Adl ''et al.'', 2005 (Viridiplantae Cavalier-Smith 1981; Chlorobionta Jeffrey 1982, emend. Bremer 1985, emend. Lewis and McCourt 2004; Chlorobiota Kendrick and Crane 1997) ::Chloroplastida is the term chosen by Adl ''et al.'' for the group made up of the green algae and land plants (embryophytes). Except where lost secondarily, all have chloroplasts without a peptidoglycan layer and lack phycobiliproteins. [[File:Stigeoclonium sp zugespitzte seitenzweige.jpeg|thumb|upright|The [chlorophyte](/source/Chlorophyta) ''[Stigeoclonium](/source/Stigeoclonium)'']] :* [Chlorophyta](/source/Chlorophyta) Pascher, 1914, emend. Lewis & McCourt, 2004 – green algae (part) :::Adl et al. employ a narrow definition of the Chlorophyta; other sources include the Chlorodendrales and Prasinophytae, which may themselves be combined. ::* [Ulvophyceae](/source/Ulvophyceae) Mattox & Stewart, 1984 ::* [Trebouxiophyceae](/source/Trebouxiophyceae) Friedl, 1995 (Pleurastrophyceae Mattox et al. 1984; Microthamniales Melkonian 1990) ::* [Chlorophyceae](/source/Chlorophyceae) Christensen, 1994 :* [Chlorodendrales](/source/Chlorodendrales) Fritsch, 1917 – green algae (part) :* [Prasinophytae](/source/Prasinophyte) Cavalier-Smith, 1998, emend. Lewis & McCourt, 2004 – green algae (part) :* ''[Mesostigma](/source/Mesostigma)'' Lauterborn, 1894, emend. McCourt ''in'' Adl ''et al.'', 2005 (Mesostigmata Turmel, Otis, and Lemieux 2002) :* [Charophyta](/source/Charophyta) Karol ''et al.'', 2001, emend. Lewis & McCourt, 2004 (Charophyceae Smith 1938, emend. Mattox and Stewart 1984) – green algae (part) and land plants :::Charophyta ''sensu lato'', as used by Adl ''et al.'', is a monophyletic group which is made up of some green algae, including the stoneworts (Charophyta ''sensu stricto''), as well as the land plants (embryophytes). ::* Sub-divisions other than Streptophytina (below) were not given by Adl et al. ::::Other sources would include the green algal groups [Chlorokybales](/source/Chlorokybales), [Klebsormidiales](/source/Klebsormidiales), [Zygnematales](/source/Zygnematales) and [Coleochaetales](/source/Coleochaetales).{{cite journal |author=Turmel, M. |author2=Otis, C.|author3= Lemieux, C. |title=The complete chloroplast DNA sequences of the charophycean green algae ''Staurastrum'' and ''Zygnema'' reveal that the chloroplast genome underwent extensive changes during the evolution of the Zygnematales |journal=BMC Biology |volume=3|article-number=22 |year=2005 |issue=1 |pmid=16236178 |pmc=1277820 |doi=10.1186/1741-7007-3-22 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2005BMCB....3...22T }} ::* [Streptophytina](/source/Streptophytina) Lewis & McCourt, 2004 – stoneworts and land plants :::* [Charales](/source/Charales) Lindley 1836 (Charophytae Engler, 1887) – stoneworts :::* [Plantae](/source/Plantae) Haeckel 1866 (Cormophyta Endlicher, 1836; Embryophyta Endlicher, 1836, emend. Lewis & McCourt, 2004) – land plants (embryophytes) === External phylogeny === Below is a consensus reconstruction of the relationships of Archaeplastida with its nearest neighbours, mainly based on molecular data.{{cite journal |last1=Leliaert |first1=Frederik |last2=Smith |first2=David R. |last3=Moreau |first3=Hervé |last4=Herron |first4=Matthew D. |last5=Verbruggen |first5=Heroen |last6=Delwiche |first6=Charles F. |last7=De Clerck |first7=Olivier |year=2012 |title=Phylogeny and Molecular Evolution of the Green Algae |url=http://images.algaebase.org/pdf/5628E58F0ecc431F0CsJm2B04CAD/49951.pdf |journal=Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=1–46 |doi=10.1080/07352689.2011.615705 |bibcode=2012CRvPS..31....1L |s2cid=17603352 |access-date=2017-10-15 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924201133/http://images.algaebase.org/pdf/5628E58F0ecc431F0CsJm2B04CAD/49951.pdf }}{{Cite book |title=Handbook of the Protists |last1=Cook |first1=Martha E. |last2=Graham |first2=Linda E. |chapter=Chlorokybophyceae, Klebsormidiophyceae, Coleochaetophyceae |date=2017 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-319-28147-6 |editor-last=Archibald |editor-first=John M. |pages=185–204 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-28149-0_36 |editor-last2=Simpson |editor-first2=Alastair G. B. |editor-last3=Slamovits |editor-first3=Claudio H.}}{{cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Louise A. |author2=McCourt, Richard M. |year=2004 |title=Green algae and the origin of land plants |journal=[American Journal of Botany](/source/American_Journal_of_Botany) |volume=91 |issue=10 |pages=1535–1556 |doi=10.3732/ajb.91.10.1535 |pmid=21652308 |bibcode=2004AmJB...91.1535L }}{{Cite journal |last1=Adl |first1=Sina M. |last2=Simpson |first2=Alastair G. B. |last3=Lane |first3=Christopher E. |last4=Lukeš |first4=Julius |last5=Bass |first5=David |last6=Bowser |first6=Samuel S. |last7=Brown |first7=Matthew W. |last8=Burki |first8=Fabien |last9=Dunthorn |first9=Micah |date=2012-09-01 |title=The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes |journal=Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology |volume=59 |issue=5 |pages=429–514 |doi=10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00644.x |pmid=23020233 |pmc=3483872}} {{Clade |style=line-height:80%|label1=[Diaphoretickes](/source/Diaphoretickes) |{{clade |1={{clade |state=dashed |1={{clade |1=[Meteora](/source/Meteora_sporadica) 60px |2=[Hemimastigophora](/source/Hemimastigophora) 40px }} |2=? (Provora) |3={{clade |1={{clade |1=[Provora](/source/Provora) |state1=dashed |2=[Haptista](/source/Haptista) 60px |label3=[TSAR](/source/TSAR) |3={{clade |1=[Telonemia](/source/Telonemia) |state1=dashed |label2=[SAR](/source/SAR_supergroup) |2={{clade |1=[Rhizaria](/source/Rhizaria) 60px |label2=[Halvaria](/source/Halvaria) |2={{clade |1=[Stramenopiles](/source/Stramenopiles) 50px |2=[Alveolata](/source/Alveolata) 90px }} }} }} }} |label2=[CAM](/source/CAM_(clade)) |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=[Cryptista](/source/Cryptista) 70px |2=''[Microheliella maris](/source/Microheliella_maris)''{{cite bioRxiv |last1=Yazaki |first1=Euki |last2=Yabuki |first2=Akinori |last3=Imaizumi |first3=Ayaka |last4=Kume |first4=Keitaro |last5=Hashimoto |first5=Tetsuo |last6=Inagaki |first6=Yuji |title=Phylogenomics invokes the clade housing Cryptista, Archaeplastida, and ''Microheliella maris'' |biorxiv=10.1101/2021.08.29.458128 |date=31 August 2021}} }} |2='''Archaeplastida''' 60px }} }} }} }} }} There has been disagreement near the Archaeplastida root, e.g. whether Cryptista emerged within the Archaeplastida. In 2014 a thorough review was published on these inconsistencies.{{Cite journal |last1=Mackiewicz |first1=Paweł |last2=Gagat |first2=Przemysław |date=2014-12-31 |title=Monophyly of Archaeplastida supergroup and relationships among its lineages in the light of phylogenetic and phylogenomic studies. Are we close to a consensus? |journal=Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae |volume=83 |issue=4 |pages=263–280 |doi=10.5586/asbp.2014.044 |bibcode=2014AcSBP..83..263M |doi-access=free}} The position of [Telonemia](/source/Telonemia) and [Picozoa](/source/Picozoa) are not clear. Also Hacrobia (Haptista + Cryptista) may be completely associated with the SAR clade. The SAR are often seen as eukaryote-eukaryote hybrids, contributing to the confusion in the genetic analyses. A sister of [Gloeomargarita lithophora](/source/Gloeomargarita_lithophora) has been engulfed by an ancestor of the Archaeplastida, leading to the [plastid](/source/plastid)s which are living in permanent endosymbiosis in most of the descendant lineages. Because both Gloeomargarita and related cyanobacteria, in addition to the most primitive archaeplastids, all live in freshwater, it seems the Archaeplastida originated in freshwater, and only colonized the oceans in the late Proterozoic.{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.006 |pmid=28171752 |volume=27 |title=Endosymbiosis: Did Plastids Evolve from a Freshwater Cyanobacterium? |year=2017 |journal=Current Biology |pages=R103–R105 |last1=de Vries |first1=Jan |last2=Archibald |first2=John M. |issue=3 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2017CBio...27.R103D }}{{Cite journal |pmc=5604047|year=2017 |last1=Lewis |first1=L. A. |title=Hold the salt: Freshwater origin of primary plastids |journal=PNAS |volume=114 |issue=37 |pages=9759–9760 |pmid=28860199 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1712956114 |bibcode=2017PNAS..114.9759L |doi-access=free}} === Internal phylogeny === In 2019, a phylogeny of the Archaeplastida based on genomes and transcriptomes from 1,153 plant species was proposed.{{cite journal |last1=Leebens-Mack |first1=M. |last2=Barker |first2=M. |last3=Carpenter |first3=E. |author4-link=Michael Deyholos |last4=Deyholos |first4=M. K. |last5=Gitzendammer |first5=M. A. |last6=Graham |first6=S.W. |last7=Grosse |first7=I. |last8=Li |first8=Zheng |display-authors=3 |title=One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants |journal=Nature |volume=574 |issue=7780 |year=2019 |pages=679–685 |doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1693-2 |pmid=31645766 |pmc=6872490 |doi-access=free }} The placing of algal groups is supported by phylogenies based on genomes from the Mesostigmatophyceae and Chlorokybophyceae that have since been sequenced. Both the "chlorophyte algae" and the "streptophyte algae" are treated as paraphyletic (vertical bars beside phylogenetic tree diagram) in this analysis.{{cite journal |last1=Liang |first1=Zhe |display-authors=etal |title=Mesostigma viride Genome and Transcriptome Provide Insights into the Origin and Evolution of Streptophyta |journal=Advanced Science |volume=7 |issue=1 |year=2019 |article-number=1901850 |doi=10.1002/advs.201901850 |pmid=31921561 |pmc=6947507 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Sibo |display-authors=etal |title=Genomes of early-diverging streptophyte algae shed light on plant terrestrialization |journal=Nature Plants |volume=6 |issue=2 |year=2020 |pages=95–106 |doi=10.1038/s41477-019-0560-3 |pmid=31844283 |pmc=7027972 |bibcode=2020NatPl...6...95W |doi-access=free }} The classification of Bryophyta is supported both by Puttick ''et al.'' 2018,{{cite journal |last1=Puttick |first1=Mark |display-authors=etal |title=The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte |journal=Current Biology |volume=28 |issue=5 |year=2018 |pages=733–745 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.063 |pmid=29456145|doi-access=free |bibcode=2018CBio...28E.733P |hdl=1983/ad32d4da-6cb3-4ed6-add2-2415f81b46da |hdl-access=free }} and by phylogenies involving the hornwort genomes that have also since been sequenced.{{cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Jian |display-authors=etal |title=The hornwort genome and early land plant evolution |journal=Nature Plants |volume=6 |issue=2 |year=2020 |pages=107–118 |doi=10.1038/s41477-019-0588-4|pmid=32042158 |pmc=7027989 |bibcode=2020NatPl...6..107Z |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Li |first1=Fay Wei |display-authors=etal |title=Anthoceros genomes illuminate the origin of land plants and the unique biology of hornworts |journal=Nature Plants |volume=6 |issue=3 |year=2020 |pages=259–272 |doi=10.1038/s41477-020-0618-2|pmid=32170292 |pmc=8075897 |bibcode=2020NatPl...6..259L |doi-access=free }} Recent work on non-photosynthetic algae places [Rhodelphidia](/source/Rhodelphidia) as sister to Rhodophyta or to Glaucophyta and Viridiplantae;{{cite journal |last1=Gawryluk |first1=Ryan M. R. |last2=Tikhonenkov |first2=Denis V. |last3=Hehenberger |first3=Elisabeth |last4=Husnik |first4=Filip |last5=Mylnikov |first5=Alexander P. |last6=Keeling |first6=Patrick J. |title=Non-photosynthetic predators are sister to red algae |journal=Nature |volume=572 |issue=7768 |date=17 July 2019 |doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1398-6 |pages=240–243|pmid=31316212 |bibcode=2019Natur.572..240G |s2cid=197542583 }}{{cite bioRxiv |last1=Novak |first1=Lukas V. F. |title=Nucleomorph phylogenomics suggests a deep and ancient origin of cryptophyte plastids within Rhodophyta |date=2024-03-11 |biorxiv=10.1101/2024.03.10.584144 |last2=Muñoz-Gómez |first2=Sergio A. |last3=Beveren |first3=Fabian van |last4=Ciobanu |first4=Maria |last5=Eme |first5=Laura |last6=López-García |first6=Purificación |last7=Moreira |first7=David}} and [Picozoa](/source/Picozoa) sister to that pair of groups.{{cite journal |last1=Schön |first1=Max E. |last2=Zlatogursky |first2=Vasily V. |last3=Singh |first3=Rohan P. |last4=Poirier |first4=Camille |last5=Wilken |first5=Susanne |last6=Mathur |first6=Varsha |last7=Strassert |first7=Jürgen F. H. |last8=Pinhassi |first8=Jarone |last9=Worden |first9=Alexandra Z. |last10=Keeling |first10=Patrick J. |last11=Ettema |first11=Thijs J. G. |last12=Wideman |first12=Jeremy G. |last13=Burki |first13=Fabien |title=Single cell genomics reveals plastid-lacking Picozoa are close relatives of red algae |journal=Nature Communications |volume=12 |issue=1 |date=17 November 2021 |page=6651 |doi=10.1038/s41467-021-26918-0|pmid=34789758 |pmc=8599508 |bibcode=2021NatCo..12.6651S }} {{clade|style=font-size:90%;line-height:80%; |grouplabel1={{clade labels |label1="chlorophyte algae"|top1=15% |label2="streptophyte algae"|top2=40%}} |label1='''Archaeplastida''' |1={{clade |label1=[Rhodaria](/source/Rhodaria_(clade)) |1={{clade |1=[Picozoa](/source/Picozoa) 30px |2={{clade |1=[Rhodelphidia](/source/Rhodelphidia) |2=[Rhodophyta](/source/Red_algae) 50px }} }} |2={{clade |1=[Glaucophyta](/source/Glaucophyte) 50px |label2='''Viridiplantae''' |sublabel2= (green plants) |2={{clade |1=[Chlorophyta](/source/Chlorophyta) 50px |bar1=darkgreen |2={{clade |1=[Prasinococcales](/source/Prasinococcaceae) |bar1=darkgreen |2=  |state2=none |style2=font-size:50%;line-height:50%; |label3=[Streptophyta](/source/Streptophyta)/ |sublabel3=[Charophyta](/source/Charophyta) [*](/source/Paraphyly) |3={{clade |1= {{clade |1=[Mesostigmatophyceae](/source/Mesostigmatophyceae)|bar1=blue |2={{clade |1=[Chlorokybophyceae](/source/Chlorokybophyceae)|bar1=blue |2=''[Spirotaenia](/source/Spirotaenia)'' 30px |bar2=blue }} }} |2={{clade |1=[Klebsormidiales](/source/Klebsormidiophyceae) 50px |bar1=blue |2={{clade |1=''[Chara](/source/Chara_(alga))'' 40px |bar1=blue |2={{clade |1=[Coleochaetales](/source/Coleochaetophyceae)|bar1=blue |2={{clade |1=[Zygnematophyceae](/source/Zygnematophyceae) 50px |bar1=blue |label2=[Embryophyte](/source/Embryophyte)s |sublabel2= (land plants) |2={{clade |1={{clade |label1=[Bryophytes](/source/Bryophytes) |1={{clade |1=[Hornwort](/source/Hornwort)s 40px |2={{clade |1=[Liverworts](/source/Marchantiophyta) 50px |2=[Moss](/source/Moss)es 20px }} }} }} |2={{clade |1=[Lycophyte](/source/Lycophyte)s 50px |label2=[Euphyllophyta](/source/Euphyllophyta) |2={{clade |1=[Fern](/source/Fern)s 50px |label2=[Spermatophyte](/source/Spermatophyte)s |sublabel2= (seed plants) |2={{clade |1=[Gymnosperm](/source/Gymnosperm)s 40px |2=[Angiosperms](/source/Flowering_plant) 50px }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} == Morphology == All archaeplastidans have plastids (chloroplasts) that carry out photosynthesis and are believed to be derived from endosymbiotic cyanobacteria. In glaucophytes, perhaps the most primitive members of the group, the chloroplast is called a ''cyanelle'' and shares several features with cyanobacteria, including a peptidoglycan cell wall, that are not retained in other members of the group. The resemblance of cyanelles to cyanobacteria supports the [endosymbiotic theory](/source/endosymbiotic_theory). The cells of most archaeplastidans have walls, commonly but not always made of cellulose.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} The Archaeplastida vary widely in the degree of their cell organization, from isolated cells to filaments to colonies to multi-celled organisms. The earliest were unicellular, and many groups remain so today. Multicellularity evolved separately in several groups, including red algae, [ulvophyte green algae](/source/ulvophyceae), and in the green algae that gave rise to [stonewort](/source/stonewort)s and land plants. ==Endosymbiosis== {{main|Endosymbiotic theory}} Because the ancestral archaeplastidan is hypothesized to have acquired its chloroplasts directly by engulfing cyanobacteria, the event is known as a ''primary endosymbiosis'' (as reflected in the name chosen for the group 'Archaeplastida' i.e. 'ancient plastid'). In 2013 it was discovered that one species of green algae, ''[Cymbomonas tetramitiformis](/source/Cymbomonas_tetramitiformis)'' in the order [Pyramimonadales](/source/Pyramimonadales), is a [mixotroph](/source/mixotroph) and able to support itself through both [phagotrophy](/source/Phagocytosis) and [phototroph](/source/phototroph)y. It is not yet known if this is a primitive trait and therefore defines the last common ancestor of Archaeplastida, which could explain how it obtained its chloroplasts, or if it is a trait regained by [horizontal gene transfer](/source/horizontal_gene_transfer).{{cite journal|title=Cells inside Cells: Symbiosis and Continuing Phagotrophy|journal=Current Biology|volume=23|issue=12|pages=R530–R531|doi=10.1016/j.cub.2013.05.006|pmid=23787050|year=2013|last1=Raven|first1=John A.|doi-access=free|bibcode=2013CBio...23.R530R }} Since then more species of mixotrophic green algae, such as ''Pyramimonas tychotreta'' and ''Mantoniella antarctica'', has been found.{{cite journal | doi=10.1038/s41396-021-00899-w | title=Experimental identification and in silico prediction of bacterivory in green algae | year=2021 | last1=Bock | first1=Nicholas A. | last2=Charvet | first2=Sophie | last3=Burns | first3=John | last4=Gyaltshen | first4=Yangtsho | last5=Rozenberg | first5=Andrey | last6=Duhamel | first6=Solange | last7=Kim | first7=Eunsoo | journal=The ISME Journal | volume=15 | issue=7 | pages=1987–2000 | pmid=33649548 | pmc=8245530 | bibcode=2021ISMEJ..15.1987B }} Evidence for primary endosymbiosis includes the presence of a double membrane around the chloroplasts; one membrane belonged to the bacterium, and the other to the eukaryote that captured it. Over time, many genes from the chloroplast have been transferred to the nucleus of the host cell through endosymbiotic gene transfer (EGT). It is estimated that 6–20% of the archaeplastidan genome consist of genes transferred from the endosymbiont.{{cite journal | doi=10.3389/fpls.2013.00366 | doi-access=free | title=Algal endosymbionts as vectors of horizontal gene transfer in photosynthetic eukaryotes | year=2013 | last1=Qiu | first1=Huan | last2=Yoon | first2=Hwan Su | last3=Bhattacharya | first3=Debashish | journal=Frontiers in Plant Science | volume=4 | page=366 | pmid=24065973 | pmc=3777023 | bibcode=2013FrPS....4..366Q }} The presence of such genes in the nuclei of eukaryotes without chloroplasts suggests this transfer happened early in the evolution of the group.{{cite journal |last= Andersson |first= Jan O. |author2=Roger, Andrew J. |title= A cyanobacterial gene in non-photosynthetic protists – an early chloroplast acquisition in eukaryotes? |journal= Current Biology |year= 2002 |volume= 12 |issue= 2 |pages= 115–119 |doi= 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00649-2 |pmid= 11818061|s2cid= 18809784 |doi-access= free |bibcode= 2002CBio...12..115A }} Other eukaryotes with chloroplasts appear to have gained them by engulfing a single-celled archaeplastidan with its own bacterially-derived chloroplasts. Because these events involve endosymbiosis of cells that have their own endosymbionts, the process is called ''secondary endosymbiosis''. The chloroplasts of such eukaryotes are typically surrounded by more than two membranes, reflecting a history of multiple engulfment. The chloroplasts of [euglenid](/source/euglenid)s, [chlorarachniophyte](/source/chlorarachniophyte)s and a small group of [dinoflagellate](/source/dinoflagellate)s appear to be captured green algae,{{Cite journal | doi=10.1098/rstb.2009.0103| pmid=20124341| pmc=2817223| title=The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids| journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences| volume=365| issue=1541| pages=729–748| year=2010| last1=Keeling| first1=Patrick J.}} whereas those of the remaining photosynthetic eukaryotes, such as [heterokont](/source/heterokont) algae, [cryptophytes](/source/Cryptomonad), [haptophyte](/source/haptophyte)s, and dinoflagellates, appear to be captured red algae.{{cite journal|last1=Stadnichuk|first1=I.N.|last2=Kusnetsov|first2=V.V.|title=Endosymbiotic Origin of Chloroplasts in Plant Cells' Evolution|journal=Russian Journal of Plant Physiology|volume=68|pages=1–16|year=2021|doi=10.1134/S1021443721010179|s2cid=255012748|issue=1 |bibcode=2021RuJPP..68....1S }} ==Fossil record== Perhaps the most ancient remains of Archaeplastida are putative red algae (''[Rafatazmia](/source/Rafatazmia)'') within [stromatolites](/source/stromatolites) in 1600 Ma (million years ago) rocks in India,{{cite journal|doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.2000735|pmid=28291791|pmc=5349422|title=Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae|journal=PLOS Biology|volume=15|issue=3|article-number=e2000735|year=2017|last1=Bengtson|first1=Stefan|last2=Sallstedt|first2=Therese|last3=Belivanova|first3=Veneta|last4=Whitehouse|first4=Martin |doi-access=free }} as well as possible alga fossils (''[Tuanshanzia](/source/Tuanshanzia)'') from China's Gaoyuzhuang Biota of a similar age.{{Cite journal|last1=Chen |first1=K. |last2=Miao |first2=L. |last3=Zhao |first3=F. |last4=Zhu |first4=M. |title=Carbonaceous macrofossils from the early Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation in the Yanshan Range, North China |year=2023 |journal=Precambrian Research |volume=392 |article-number=107074 |doi=10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107074 |bibcode=2023PreR..39207074C }} Somewhat more recent are [microfossil](/source/microfossil)s from the Roper group in northern Australia. The structure of these single-celled fossils resembles that of modern green algae. They date to the [Mesoproterozoic](/source/Mesoproterozoic) Era, about 1500 to 1300 Ma.{{cite journal |last= Javaux |first= Emmanuelle J. |author2= Knoll, Andrew H.|author3= Walter, Malcolm R. |s2cid= 53600639 |title= TEM evidence for eukaryotic diversity in mid-Proterozoic oceans |journal= Geobiology |year= 2004 |volume= 2 |issue= 3 |pages= 121–132 |doi= 10.1111/j.1472-4677.2004.00027.x|bibcode= 2004Gbio....2..121J }} These fossils are consistent with a [molecular clock](/source/molecular_clock) study that calculated that this clade diverged about 1500 Ma.{{cite journal |last= Yoon |first= Hwan Su |author2= Hackett, Jeremiah D.|author3= Ciniglia, Claudia|author4= Pinto, Gabriele|author5= Bhattacharya, Debashish |title= A molecular timeline for the origin of photosynthetic eukaryotes |journal= Molecular Biology and Evolution |year= 2004 |volume= 21 |issue= 5 |pages= 809–818 |doi= 10.1093/molbev/msh075 |pmid= 14963099|doi-access= free }} The oldest fossil that can be assigned to a specific modern group is the red alga ''[Bangiomorpha](/source/Bangiomorpha)'', from 1200 Ma.{{cite journal |last= Butterfield |first= Nicholas J. |title= ''Bangiomorpha pubescens'' n. gen., n. sp.: implications for the evolution of sex, multicellularity, and the Mesoproterozoic/Neoproterozoic radiation of eukaryotes |journal= Paleobiology |year= 2000 |volume= 26 |issue= 3 |pages= 386–404 |doi= 10.1666/0094-8373(2000)026<0386:BPNGNS>2.0.CO;2|bibcode= 2000Pbio...26..386B |s2cid= 36648568 }} In the late [Neoproterozoic](/source/Neoproterozoic) Era, algal fossils became more numerous and diverse. Eventually, in the [Paleozoic](/source/Paleozoic) Era, plants emerged onto land, and have continued to flourish up to the present. ==Notes== {{reflist|group=note}} ==References== {{Reflist|32em}} ==External links== {{Wikispecies}} * [http://tolweb.org/Eukaryotes/3 Tree of Life Eukaryotes] {{Eukaryota|D.}} {{Plant classification}} {{Botany}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q879246}} Category:Archaeplastida Category:Diaphoretickes taxa --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Archaeplastida](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeplastida) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeplastida?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.