Publications by authors named "Kate E Jaggi"
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- Penstemons are flowering plants native to the Rocky Mountains, often used in urban landscaping, but elite varieties struggle with abiotic stresses like drought and salinity.
- Firecracker penstemon (Penstemon eatonii) is more resilient to these stresses and can hybridize with other penstemon species, offering a way to create more tolerant cultivars.
- Researchers sequenced the genome of a firecracker penstemon from Utah and additional accessions, creating the most complete penstemon genome assembly so far.
Pitseed goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri) is a free-living North American member of an allotetraploid complex that includes the Andean pseudocereal quinoa (C. quinoa). Like quinoa, pitseed goosefoot was domesticated, possibly independently, in eastern North America (subsp.
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