Seagrass Genome Sequence Lends Insights to Salt Tolerance
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
Coastal seagrass ecosystems cover some 200,000 square kilometers and account for an estimated 15 percent of carbon fixed in global ocean. In Nature, a team including DOE Joint Genome Institute researchers describes the first marine angiosperm genome: the eelgrass Zostera marina.