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Image Credit: By Koichi Hori (Ohta_Shimojima Lab., TITECH)

Klebsormidium nitens, CC BY-SA 2.0



Scientific name: Klebsormidium nitens

Common name(s): none

Name as shown in Phylogenes: K. nitens

Ploidy: Diploid

Description:

Amborella trichopoda is a small, vascular land plant that is endemic to the South Pacific Islands of New Caledonia.

Amborella, is the sole extant representative of the most basal clade of Angiosperms. As such, it plays an important role in understanding plant gene function and evolution of flowering plants.

Reference(s): 

  1. Amborella Genome Project. The Amborella genome and the evolution of flowering plants. Science. 2013 Dec 20;342(6165):1241089.

    Hori K, et al. Klebsormidium flaccidum genome reveals primary factors for plant terrestrial adaptation. Nature communications 5, 4978. doi:10.

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    science.1241089.

    ncomms4978.  (Klebsormidium flaccidum NIES-2285 was re-identified as Klebsormidium nitens NIES-2285, 2016 Jun)

Genome Database(s)

Amborella Klebsormidum nitens genome at Phytozomeproject