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… fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii … ancient gene transfers from bacteria have all armed the plant with an array of defense mechanisms. The Impact There … will illuminate the evolutionary history of a pivotal plant as well as the evolution of seed plants, the fern’s …

… researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for microbial and metagenome … analysis of fungal genomes, and Phytozome for comparing plant genomes. Kuo and Grigoriev encourage scientists to …

… researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for microbial and metagenome … analysis of fungal genomes, and Phytozome for comparing plant genomes. Kuo and Grigoriev encourage scientists to …

… process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes … store carbon, filter water, and support all kinds of plants and animals, but with climate change driving more … process.  Summary Most studies on post-wildfire soil microbiomes have focused on marker gene analyses, which take …

Nayfach et al. (2021) A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature Biotechnology 39, 499-509. Schulz et al. …

… the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely … work was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of … from each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, archaea, protist, plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify …

… in the sequencing and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s … on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity of plants and animals by combining computational genome … In addition to this evolutionary focus, his work on plant genomics is targeted towards the development of …

… understand — and harness — the superpowers encoded in plants, fungi, microalgae, environmental viruses, and …

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 … genome references are now available for male and female plants of fire moss. Most notably, the work revealed that …