One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants.

ABSTRACT: Green plants (Viridiplantae) include around 450,000-500,000 species^1,2 of great diversity and have important roles in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Here, as part of the One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative, we sequenced the vegetative transcriptomes of 1,124 species that span the diversity of plants in a broad sense (Archaeplastida), including green plants (Viridiplantae), glaucophytes (Glaucophyta) and red algae (Rhodophyta). Our analysis provides a robust phylogenomic framework for examining the evolution of green plants. Most inferred species relationships are well supported across multiple species tree and supermatrix analyses, but discordance among plastid and nuclear gene trees at a few important nodes highlights the complexity of plant genome evolution, incl

SUBMITTER: One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6872490 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature