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… protect other crops facing similar pathogens. Summary Many plants, sugarcane included, are polyploid and have multiple … but has one of the most complex genetic blueprints. Assembling a genome has been compared to putting together a … without necessarily knowing the final image. In contrast, assembling the sugarcane genome was more challenging and …

… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, … into gene families involved in adaptations seen in later plant lineages. The team found that some of the adaptation …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex …

… drive innovations that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, …

In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and more. And …

… the largest integration of single-cell datasets in plants and provides a foundation for still larger efforts in diverse plant species beyond models,” he said. Cole annotated cell types in the plant root atlas, and noted that the approach he developed …

… along with 100 of his colleagues in the comparative plant genomics community. The project’s aim is to generate … representing all major evolutionary lineages in the land plant tree of life.   As of the start of 2022, there were … material in hand,” said Jeremy Schmutz, lead of the JGI’s Plant Program, including genomes that are both large and …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … also known as “polyploidy,” is common among flowering plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many genes after …

… to do an independent study on ethnobotany of some of the plants that people were using for medicines in this very … and my masters, but I ended up starting a master’s in plant ecology. And that masters helped me to figure out that I didn’t really want to study plant ecology– that there wasn’t enough application there. …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha … led a team that  recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project …