Amborella genome sequenced using material from UCSC Arboretum
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
The tropical shrub known as Amborella trichopoda is the duck-billed platypus of the plant world, the only survivor of the earliest branch on the family tree of flowering plants. Scientists have now decoded the complete genome of Amborella, yielding new insights into the evolution of flowering plants. The UCSC Arboretum played an important role in this work, providing plant material from its collections to key researchers working on the Amborella genome project over several years.