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Feng X, Zheng J, Irisarri I, Yu H, Zheng B, Ali Z, de Vries S, Keller J, Fürst-Jansen JMR, Dadras A, Zegers JMS, Rieseberg TP, Dhabalia Ashok A, Darienko T, Bierenbroodspot MJ, Gramzow L, Petroll R, Haas FB, Fernandez-Pozo N, Nousias O, Li T, Fitzek E, Grayburn WS, Rittmeier N, Permann C, Rümpler F, Archibald JM, Theißen G, Mower JP, Lorenz M, Buschmann H, von Schwartzenberg K, Boston L, Hayes RD, Daum C, Barry K, Grigoriev IV, Wang X, Li FW, Rensing SA, Ben Ari J, Keren N, Mosquna A, Holzinger A, Delaux PM, Zhang C, Huang J, Mutwil M, de Vries J, Yin Y. Genomes of multicellular algal sisters to land plants illuminate signaling network evolution. Nat Genet 2024; 56:1018-1031. [PMID: 38693345 PMCID: PMC11096116 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01737-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
Abstract
Zygnematophyceae are the algal sisters of land plants. Here we sequenced four genomes of filamentous Zygnematophyceae, including chromosome-scale assemblies for three strains of Zygnema circumcarinatum. We inferred traits in the ancestor of Zygnematophyceae and land plants that might have ushered in the conquest of land by plants: expanded genes for signaling cascades, environmental response, and multicellular growth. Zygnematophyceae and land plants share all the major enzymes for cell wall synthesis and remodifications, and gene gains shaped this toolkit. Co-expression network analyses uncover gene cohorts that unite environmental signaling with multicellular developmental programs. Our data shed light on a molecular chassis that balances environmental response and growth modulation across more than 600 million years of streptophyte evolution.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xuehuan Feng
- Nebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Nebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
- Zhejiang Lab, Hanzhou, China
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Campus Institute Data Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Section Phylogenomics, Centre for Molecular biodiversity Research, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Zoological Museum Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Plant Science Innovation, Lincoln, NE, USA
- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Yunnan, China
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- Nebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Nanyang Technological University, School of Biological Sciences, Singapore, Singapore
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, INP Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- University of Jena, Matthias Schleiden Institute/Genetics, Jena, Germany
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- Plant Cell Biology, Department of Biology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Algal Development and Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Cell Biology, Department of Biology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Algal Development and Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Cell Biology, Department of Biology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Institute for Mediterranean and Subtropical Horticulture 'La Mayora', Málaga, Spain
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- Nebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Nebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Northern Illinois University, Molecular Core Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, DeKalb, IL, USA
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Botany, Research Group Plant Cell Biology, Innsbruck, Austria
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Botany, Research Group Plant Cell Biology, Innsbruck, Austria
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- University of Jena, Matthias Schleiden Institute/Genetics, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- University of Jena, Matthias Schleiden Institute/Genetics, Jena, Germany
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Plant Science Innovation, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- University of Goettingen, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Experimental Phycology and Culture Collection of Algae at Goettingen University, Goettingen, Germany
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- University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Faculty of Applied Computer Sciences and Biosciences, Section Biotechnology and Chemistry, Molecular Biotechnology, Mittweida, Germany
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- Universität Hamburg, Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, Microalgae and Zygnematophyceae Collection Hamburg and Aquatic Ecophysiology and Phycology, Hamburg, Germany
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- Genome Sequencing Center, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China
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- Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Plant Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Plant Cell Biology, Department of Biology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- University of Freiburg, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), Freiburg, Germany
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- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Rehovot, Israel
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- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Rehovot, Israel
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- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Rehovot, Israel
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Botany, Research Group Plant Cell Biology, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, INP Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Plant Science Innovation, Lincoln, NE, USA
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- Nanyang Technological University, School of Biological Sciences, Singapore, Singapore
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
- Campus Institute Data Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
- University of Goettingen, Goettingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Goettingen, Germany.
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- Nebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
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Feng X, Zheng J, Irisarri I, Yu H, Zheng B, Ali Z, de Vries S, Keller J, Fürst-Jansen JM, Dadras A, Zegers JM, Rieseberg TP, Ashok AD, Darienko T, Bierenbroodspot MJ, Gramzow L, Petroll R, Haas FB, Fernandez-Pozo N, Nousias O, Li T, Fitzek E, Grayburn WS, Rittmeier N, Permann C, Rümpler F, Archibald JM, Theißen G, Mower JP, Lorenz M, Buschmann H, von Schwartzenberg K, Boston L, Hayes RD, Daum C, Barry K, Grigoriev IV, Wang X, Li FW, Rensing SA, Ari JB, Keren N, Mosquna A, Holzinger A, Delaux PM, Zhang C, Huang J, Mutwil M, de Vries J, Yin Y. Chromosome-level genomes of multicellular algal sisters to land plants illuminate signaling network evolution. bioRxiv 2023:2023.01.31.526407. [PMID: 36778228 PMCID: PMC9915684 DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.31.526407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Abstract
The filamentous and unicellular algae of the class Zygnematophyceae are the closest algal relatives of land plants. Inferring the properties of the last common ancestor shared by these algae and land plants allows us to identify decisive traits that enabled the conquest of land by plants. We sequenced four genomes of filamentous Zygnematophyceae (three strains of Zygnema circumcarinatum and one strain of Z. cylindricum) and generated chromosome-scale assemblies for all strains of the emerging model system Z. circumcarinatum. Comparative genomic analyses reveal expanded genes for signaling cascades, environmental response, and intracellular trafficking that we associate with multicellularity. Gene family analyses suggest that Zygnematophyceae share all the major enzymes with land plants for cell wall polysaccharide synthesis, degradation, and modifications; most of the enzymes for cell wall innovations, especially for polysaccharide backbone synthesis, were gained more than 700 million years ago. In Zygnematophyceae, these enzyme families expanded, forming co-expressed modules. Transcriptomic profiling of over 19 growth conditions combined with co-expression network analyses uncover cohorts of genes that unite environmental signaling with multicellular developmental programs. Our data shed light on a molecular chassis that balances environmental response and growth modulation across more than 600 million years of streptophyte evolution.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xuehuan Feng
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Food Science and Technology, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Food Science and Technology, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- University of Goettingen, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
- University of Goettingen, Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS), Goldschmidstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
- Section Phylogenomics, Centre for Molecular biodiversity Research, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Zoological Museum Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Plant Science Innovation, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Food Science and Technology, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- Nanyang Technological University, School of Biological Sciences, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore
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- University of Goettingen, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales (LRSV), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, INP Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, 31326, France
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- University of Goettingen, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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- University of Goettingen, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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- University of Goettingen, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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- University of Goettingen, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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- University of Goettingen, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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- University of Goettingen, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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- University of Goettingen, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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- University of Jena, Matthias Schleiden Institute / Genetics, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Plant Cell Biology, Department of Biology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Algal Development and Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Cell Biology, Department of Biology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Algal Development and Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Cell Biology, Department of Biology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Institute for Mediterranean and Subtropical Horticulture “La Mayora” (UMA-CSIC)
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Food Science and Technology, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Food Science and Technology, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Northern Illinois University, Molecular Core Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Botany, Research Group Plant Cell Biology, Sternwartestraße 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Botany, Research Group Plant Cell Biology, Sternwartestraße 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- University of Jena, Matthias Schleiden Institute / Genetics, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Dalhousie University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 5850 College Street, Halifax NS B3H 4R2, Canada
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- University of Jena, Matthias Schleiden Institute / Genetics, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Plant Science Innovation, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- University of Goettingen, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Experimental Phycology and Culture Collection of Algae at Goettingen University (EPSAG), Nikolausberger Weg 18, 37073 Goettingen, Germany
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- University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Faculty of Applied Computer Sciences and Biosciences, Section Biotechnology and Chemistry, Molecular Biotechnology, Technikumplatz 17, 09648 Mittweida, Germany
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- Universität Hamburg, Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, Microalgae and Zygnematophyceae Collection Hamburg (MZCH) and Aquatic Ecophysiology and Phycology, Ohnhorststr. 18, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Genome Sequencing Center, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- North China University of Science and Technology
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- Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Cornell University, Plant Biology Section, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Plant Cell Biology, Department of Biology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- University of Freiburg, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), Freiburg, Germany
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- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Rehovot 7610000, Israel
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- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Rehovot 7610000, Israel
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- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Rehovot 7610000, Israel
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Botany, Research Group Plant Cell Biology, Sternwartestraße 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales (LRSV), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, INP Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, 31326, France
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Plant Science Innovation, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
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- Nanyang Technological University, School of Biological Sciences, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore
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- University of Goettingen, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
- University of Goettingen, Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS), Goldschmidstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
- University of Goettingen, Goettingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Food Science and Technology, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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