Finding causal relationships between genotypic and phenotypic variation is a key focus of evolutionary biology, human genetics and plant breeding. To identify genome-wide patterns underlying trait ...

Spinach looks nothing like parsley, and basil bears no resemblance to thyme. Each plant has a typical leaf shape that can differ even within the same family. The information about what shape leaves ...

Plants host at the contact zone with soil a distinctive root-associated bacterial microbiota believed to function in plant nutrition and health. We investigated the diversity of the root microbiota ...

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This is a seedling of the emerging model organism Cardamine hirsuta visualized using confocal microscopy and morphographix software. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 14 Feb., 2014, ...

This Letter should have been published under a Creative Commons licence according to the Nature policy on publishing the primary sequence of an organism's genome for ...