And please guess what they have in common (as of today).
Brassica rapa
Solanum tuberosum
Jatropha curcas
Chlorella sp
Oryza glaberrima, & O. sativa
Malus x domestica (Golden)
Volvox (carteri)
Selaginella moellendorfii (no pix)
Arabidopsis lyrata lyrata
Glycine max
And the others: Zea mays mays, Cucumis sativus, Micromonas pusilla, Sorghum bicolor, Physcomitrella patens patens, Vitis vinifera, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Ostreococcus lucimarinus, Ostreococcus tauri, Populus balsamifera trichocarpa, Arabidopsis thaliana.
So what have these plants in common? Easy, it’s all about the genome thing.
That’s for 21 plants species whose genomes have been completely sequenced as of today. About 12% of Eucaryots with complete sequence (but, hey, at least there are plants in the list).
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