Sentences with phrase «land plant genomes»
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By sequencing the genome of the extensively studied moss Physcomitrella patens and comparing it to the sequenced genomes of rice, the flowering plant Arabidopsis, and single - cell algae, an international team has been able to look at what the ancestral land - plant genome looked like.
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William «Ned» Friedman, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is excited about the potential of the moss genome to reveal clues about how plants accomplished the transition to land.
By sequencing the genome of this moss, Physcomitrella patens (shown in a close - up shot), evolutionary biologists are learning how plants moved onto land.
His development of a method for stable transformation of land plant chloroplast genomes, once thought to be impossible, established the field of chloroplast genome engineering in higher plants and has led to an explosion of research concerning the chloroplast genome's role in photosynthesis, functional analysis of plastid genes by reverse genetics, and mechanisms of plastid gene regulation.