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A thumbnail of the cover says Nature Plants at the top against an underwater backdrop with eelgrass at the bottom, where it reads: Genomes map the currents of colonization. A tiled collage of square photos of different plants - soybeans, and sorghum, for example. Image featuring S. divinum (red) and S. angustifolium (green)] a green fern against a black background Aerial photo of the switchgrass diversity panel late in the 2020 season at the Kellogg Biological Station in Michigan. (Robert Goodwin) Green millet plants growing at the Danforth Center. (Bruton Stroube/ Donald Danforth Plant Science Center) Female S. purpurea flowers. (Larry Smart, Cornell University) Cotton being harvested. In the United States, 95 percent of the cotton grown is Gossypium hirsutum, known as Upland cotton. (Cotton Inc) PNAS study authors (left to right): Jerry Jenkins; JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz; Adam Healey; and, study senior author Tom Juenger of UT-Austin. Jenkins and Healey are part of the JGI plant analysis team at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.

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