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Female (left) and male (right) Ceratodon purpureus plants. Females typically grow larger than males in several traits, like the length of leaves. Males often turn red when developing antheridiophores, which in mosses are the structures that produce sperm (seen in the bottom right. (Sarah Carey)

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome. Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are … [Read More]

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