In collaboration with Mary Bisson and Shaun Phipps at the University at Buffalo, Graduate student Charles A. Goodman and I used RNAseq (i.e., quantitative Illumina sequencing) to examine the role of ion-channel transporters in the salt tolerance of Chara longifolia. It is nearly certain that the ancestral condition for Chara, and for all other Streptophyte… Continue reading →