Viridiplantae
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Viridiplantae are a clade of eukaryotic organisms made up of the green algae, which are primarily aquatic, and the land plants, which evolved within them. They have cells with cellulose in their cell walls, and primary chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria that contain chlorophylls a and b and lack phycobilins.
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Encyclopedia of Cell Biology (2015)
The seven main plastid types found in green plants (members of the clade Viridiplantae; Figure 1) will be considered in this encyclopedia article to illustrate the wide diversity of anabolic activities of which plastids are capable – well beyond the ...
Encyclopedia of Biology (2016)
by CTI Reviews
Plants, also called green plants (Viridiplantae in Latin), are living multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae. They form a clade that includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns, clubmosses, hornworts, liverworts ...
Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry (2013)
Function and evolution of the vacuolar compartment in green algae and land plants ( Viridiplantae). International Review of Cytology 264: 1–24. Bowers K and Stevens TH (2005) ...
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