The February 18, 2016 issue of Nature featured Zostera marina as its cover image.
“Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is an unlikely model for plant evolution, but is a useful one because it has undergone major habitat shifts: it evolved from marine algae into a terrestrial flowering plant, then moved back to the sea again.”
Among the 10 papers that were included the Editors’ Choice list of the Nature journal is the DOE JGI paper on the eelgrass Zostera marina, which genome was sequenced in part to better understand the adaptations the plant made in returning to a saltwater environment. Click here to revisit the paper, which was the cover of a February 2016 Nature issue.
The Editors’ Choice list appeared in the December 22, 2016 issue of Nature – click here to see it.