Boyce Thompson Institute: Hornwort Genomes Could Lead to Crop Improvement
March 14, 2020
March 14, 2020
ITHACA, New York, March 14 -- Boyce Thompson Institute issued the following news:
Some 500 million years ago - when our continents were likely connected in a single land mass and most life existed underwater - hornworts were one of the first groups of plants to colonize land. But biologists have never understood much about the genetics of these ancient plants, which have very unique biology.
Fay-Wei Li from the Boyce Thompson Institute, Peter Szovenyi from the Universit . . .
Some 500 million years ago - when our continents were likely connected in a single land mass and most life existed underwater - hornworts were one of the first groups of plants to colonize land. But biologists have never understood much about the genetics of these ancient plants, which have very unique biology.
Fay-Wei Li from the Boyce Thompson Institute, Peter Szovenyi from the Universit . . .