Bacterial Microbiome in the Phyllo-Endosphere of Highly Specialized Rock Spleenwort.

Bacteria communities associated with plants have been given increasing consideration because they are arguably beneficial to their host plants. To understand the ecological and evolutionary impact of these mutualistic associations, it is important to explore the vast unknown territory of bacterial genomic diversity and their functional contributions associated with the major branches of the tree-of-life. Arguably, this aim can be achieved by profiling bacterial communities by applying high throughput sequencing approaches, besides establishing model plant organisms to test key predictions.

The first complete chloroplast genome of (Pteridaceae), a rare and endangered fern species.

The complete chloroplast genome of a rare and endangered fern species was sequenced. The genome has a typical quadripartite structure with a length of 149,956 bp and 42.8% GC content.