Credit: Jason Richards/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy
An ORNL-led research team identified 60 genes that exhibited convergent evolution in crassulacean acid metabolism species, including a novel variant of a “worker” enzyme critical to CAM plants’ water-use efficiency. Representing the team are, from left, Degao Liu, Rongbin Hu, Xiaohan Yang, Robert C. Mosely and Kaitlin J. Palla.