Selaginella genome adds piece to plant evolutionary puzzle
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
A Purdue University-led sequencing of the Selaginella moellendorffii (spikemoss) genome - the first for a non-seed vascular plant - is expected to give scientists a better understanding of how plants of all kinds evolved over the past 500 million years and could open new doors for the identification of new pharmaceuticals.