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A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The … near the surface. The other two ecotypes, on the other hand, thrive in the dark, below 200 m (656 ft). They have …

… bicolor (L.) Moench is an African grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods and poor soils. This is the first … that makes up an individual’s genome. The genes of sorghum plants are likely responsible for the crop’s ability to … relationship between plant roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), known to provide plants with nutrients and …

… with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper … history of a pivotal plant as well as the evolution of seed plants, the fern’s distant cousin. Ceratopteris richardii, … made sense. The problem with that theory was that the handful of documented WGDs in ferns could not explain the …

… believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around … clock.  Various researchers around the globe were each working on their own genetic clock to discover when eelgrass …