Interactions between plants and the root-colonizing fungus Fusarium oxysporum (Fo) can be
neutral, beneficial, or detrimental for the host. Fo is infamous for its ability to cause wilt, root …

All plants in natural ecosystems appear to be symbiotic with fungal endophytes. This highly
diverse group of fungi can have profound impacts on plant communities through increasing …

The establishment of modern terrestrial life is indissociable from angiosperm evolution.
While available molecular clock estimates of angiosperm age range from the Paleozoic to …

The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is an important model system for identifying genes
and determining their functions. Here we report the analysis of the genomic sequence of …

The analysis of the first plant genomes provided unexpected evidence for genome
duplication events in species that had previously been considered as true diploids on the …

Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequences have been aligned and compared in a number of living
organisms, and this approach has provided a wealth of information about phylogenetic …

The genome of the japonica subspecies of rice, an important cereal and model monocot,
was sequenced and assembled by whole-genome shotgun sequencing. The assembled …

Background Camellia is an economically and phylogenetically important genus in the family
Theaceae. Owing to numerous hybridization and polyploidization, it is taxonomically and …

Stay-green sorghum plants exhibit greener leaves and stems during the grain-filling period
under water-limited conditions compared with their senescent counterparts, resulting in …

We demonstrate that native grass species from coastal and geothermal habitats require
symbiotic fungal endophytes for salt and heat tolerance, respectively. Symbiotically …