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Jul 2026
The Spirogyra pratensis genome illuminates the evolution of developmental programs and spiral chloroplast biology
It is found that Spirogyra deploys a molecular program characteristic of Phragmoplastophyta yet lacks the deeply conserved plastid division machinery found in other archaeplastid plastids.
Elisa S. Goldbecker, Deepti Varshney, A. Holzhausen et al.
· The Plant Cell · 1 citation