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The Role of bZIP Transcription Factors in Green Plant Evolution: Adaptive Features Emerging from Four Founder Genes ˆ 1,2,3. ˜ ´ 2,4. 5 Luiz Gustavo Guedes Correa , Diego Mauricio Riano-Pachon , Carlos Guerra Schrago , Renato 1 2,3 1 Vicentini dos Santos , Bernd Mueller-Roeber , Michel Vincentz * ´ ´ ˜ 1 Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genetica, Departamento de Genetica e Evoluc¸ao, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, 2 Department of Molecular Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam-Golm, Germany, 3 Cooperative Research Group, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, ´ Potsdam-Golm, Germany, 4 GabiPD Team, Bioinformatics Group, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany, 5 Laboratorio de ´ Biodiversidade Molecular, Departamento de Genetica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Abstract Background: Transcription factors of the basic leucine zipper (bZIP) family control important processes in all eukaryotes. In plants, bZIPs are regulators of many central developmental and physiological processes including photomorphogenesis, leaf and seed formation, energy homeostasis, and abiotic and biotic stress responses. Here we perfo