Researchers 'Turn on the Lights' Across the Plant Tree of Life
Oct. 22, 2019
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Mike Barker's Nature paper in the news
10/24/2019
In the largest plant genome project to date, an international consortium of researchers generated gene sequences from more than 1,100 species, providing a framework for 1 billion years of green plant evolution. Read more here.
Leebens-Mack, J.H., Barker, M.S., Carpenter, E.J. et al. One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants. Nature 574, 679–685 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1693-2