Jinshun Zhong

TL;DR: It is found that genome duplication has occurred at a remarkable rate, accounting for at least a third of all speciation events in a group of about 1,200 species, focusing here on the grass tribe Andropogoneae, an economically and ecologically important group of C4 species with a high frequency of polyploids.

TL;DR: It is suggested that polyploidy could provide the raw material for diversification in a complex set of polyploids, and two rounds of allopolyploidization in the ancestry of switchgrass are shown.

TL;DR: The high-quality, 887-Mb genome of jojoba assembled into 26 chromosomes with 23,490 protein-coding genes is reported, which helped to define heterogeneous pathways and machinery for lipid synthesis and storage, provided missing evolutionary history information for this taxonomically segregated dioecious plant species, and will support efforts to improve the agronomic properties of Jojoba.

TL;DR: The strain has three distinct nitrogenases that function under different environmental conditions and is capable of photoautotrophic growth in the light and true heterotrophicgrowth in the dark using fructose as both carbon and energy source.

TL;DR: Global transcriptome profiling in developing shoot apices and inflorescences of mutant and wild-type plants revealed that HvCEN controlled transcripts involved in chromatin remodeling activities, cytokinin and cell cycle regulation and cellular respiration under LDs and short days, whereas HvVCEN affected floral homeotic genes only underLDs.