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… 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 …

… (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them back to the lab. The weedy grass was … a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon fixation process known as the C4 pathway, which …

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 …

… of research related to DOE’s missions in bioenergy, carbon cycling and biogeochemistry. In complement to … drive innovations that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, …

… 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. …

… with special skills to break down pollutants and recycle carbon. They were part of an ancient lineage of bacteria to … wildly from spring to spring. These biodiversity hotspots harbor specialized microbial communities living in extreme … a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic and hot spring  …

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 …

… 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 …