The moss Physcomitrella patens / edited by Celia Knight, Pierre-Francois Perroud, and David Cov.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Putting physcomitrella patens on the tree of life: the evolution and ecology of mosses / Brent Mishler and Melvin Oliver -- The genetic basis of natural variation in bryophyte model systems / Stuart McDaniel -- Comparative genomics / Stefan Rensing, Daniel Lang and Andreas Zimmer -- Gene targeting / Yasuko Kamisugi and Andrew Cuming -- The small RNAs of Physcomitrella patens: expression, function, and evolution / Michael Axtell -- Tip growth in the moss Physcomitrella patens / Magdalena Bezanilla and Pierre-Francois Perroud -- Gametangia development in the moss Physcomitrella patens / Rumiko Kofuji ... [et al.] -- Chloroplasts / Mamoru Sugita and Setsuyuki Aoki -- Carbon and energy metabolism / Mattias Thelander, Anders Nilsson and Hans Ronne -- Hormonal regulation of development by auxin and cytokinin in moss / Klaus von Schwartzenberg -- The role of abscisic acid in stress tolerance / Sung Hyun Cho, Klaus von Schwartzenberg and Ralph S. Quatrano -- Pathogenesis in mosses / Michael Lawton and Hemalatha Saidasan.