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Order

Charales

Called “Stoneworts” in GBIF

Charales is an order of freshwater green algae in the division Charophyta, class Charophyceae, commonly known as stoneworts. Depending on the treatment of the genus Nitellopsis, living (extant) species are placed into either one family (Characeae) or two. Further families are used for fossil members of the order. Linnaeus established the genus Chara in 1753.

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With one plant each: Characeae (Chara braunii).

Research on Charales

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Ancient pond alga already had a plant stress-signaling toolkit

The scraggly green stonewort in a pond edge or aquarium carries the same phosphorus-handling sign...

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Ancient pond alga already had a plant stress-signaling toolkit

Stonewort, a freshwater green alga related to the ancestors of land plants, already had a complex chemical signaling system built from inositol phosphates. It shifts these molecules in response to light, dark and heat, which suggests land plants inherited a stress-sensing toolkit that predates life on land.

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