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The stomatal complex is critical for gas and water exchange between plants and the atmosphere. Originating over 400 million years ago, the structure of the stomata has evolved to facilitate the adaptation of plants to various environments. Although the molecular mechanism of stomatal development in  Arabidopsis  has been widely studied, the evolution of stomatal structure and its molecular regulators in different species remains to be answered. In this study, we examined stomatal development and the orthologues of  Arabidopsis  stomatal genes in a basal angiosperm plant,  Nymphaea colorata , and a member of the eudicot CAM family,  Kalanchoe laxiflora , which represent the adaptation to aquatic and drought environments, respectively. Our results showed that despite the conservation of core stomatal regulators, a number of critical genes were lost in the  N. colorata  genome, including EPF2, MPK6, and AP2C3 and the polarity regulators BASL and POLAR. Interestingly, this is coincident with the loss of asymmetric divisions during the stomatal development of  N. colorata . In addition, we found that the guard cell in  K. laxiflora  is surrounded by three or four small subsidiary cells in adaxial leaf surfaces. This type of stomatal complex is formed via repeated asymmetric cell divisions and cell state transitions. This may result from the doubled or quadrupled key genes controlling stomatal development in  K. laxiflora . Our results show that loss or duplication of key regulatory genes is associated with environmental adaptation of the stomatal complex.

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Loss or duplication of key regulatory genes coincides with environmental adaptation of the stomatal complex in Nymphaea colorata and Kalanchoe laxiflora