Extensive import of nucleus-encoded tRNAs into chloroplasts of the photosynthetic lycophyte, Selaginella kraussiana ...

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.

"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 ...

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.

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 ...