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… and animal cells, it shares nearly 7,000 genes with other organisms (a third of those shared by both humans and … While reading up on photosynthesis, she stumbled upon an interesting observation in Chlamy. Most plants require the … lab also discovered the existence of polycistronic genes within Chlamy, meaning that its RNA can produce up to four …

… learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an international team led by graduate student Fantin Mesny in … . They looked for genes known to be involved in fungal-host interactions and identified 84 gene families that were common in fungi that live within plants (endophytes). These include genes that degrade …

… majority of the ground cover in peatlands. These boggy ecosystems are acidic and have very little oxygen, which is … plants don’t fully decompose in peatlands, and so carbon within their tissues doesn’t return to the atmosphere. Peat … kingdom. Specifically, researchers found that female plants within a species tended to weather pH stress from peatlands’ …

… fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do so, these organisms share space at cellular scale: fungi stretch a … researchers have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA sequencing to understand … sequencing, the researchers identified different cell types within  M. truncatula root cells, and profiled their gene …