Organellar phylogenomics of an emerging model system: Sphagnum (peatmoss).

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Sphagnum-dominated peatlands contain approx. 30 % of the terrestrial carbon pool in the form of partially decomposed plant material (peat), and, as a consequence, Sphagnum is currently a focus of studies on biogeochemistry and control of global climate. Sphagnum species differ in ecologically important traits that scale up to impact ecosystem function, and sequencing of the genome from selected Sphagnum species is currently underway. As an emerging model system, these resources for Sphagnum will facilitate linking nucleotide variation to plant functional traits, and through those traits to ecosystem processes. A solid phylogenetic framework for Sphagnum is crucial to comparative analyses of species-specific traits, but relationships among major clades within Sph

SUBMITTER: Jonathan Shaw A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4970357 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature