PeroxEvo

The colonization of the land by plants was a key event in evolution and has transformed the planet. In the frame of the Priority Programme „MAdLand – Molecular Adaptation to Land: plant evolution to change“ by the German Research Foundation, the evolution of peroxisome functions shall be investigated in different microalgae (streptophyte algae) and in lower plants (mosses, ferns) by computational methods of applied bioinformatics and by experimental methods of molecular cell biology. Spirogyra pratensis shall be established as a model alga.