Selaginella is the first plant of its kind, a lycophyte, to have its genome sequenced. view more Credit: Purdue Agricultural Communication photo/Tom Campbell WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.

Convergent Evolution of Syringyl Lignin Biosynthesis via Distinct Pathways in the Lycophyte Selaginella and Flowering Plants. Plant Cell , April 6, 2010 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.073528 Cite This Page : ...

Jody Banks, a professor of botany and plant pathology, led a team of about 100 scientists from 11 countries to sequence the genome of Selaginella, a lycophyte.

"The lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffi has some features of the very earliest vascular plants," she said. "By sequencing the whole genome, we can understand the course of the genes that make a ...

Frond of the lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii. Biologists have discovered that a fundamental building block in the cells of flowering plants evolved independently, yet almost identically, in ...

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