Researchers Sequence Gene Space of European Mistletoe

The European mistletoe (Viscum album) is a hemiparasitic flowering plant steeped in historic associations with druids and Northern European folklore. Since the mistletoe genome is extraordinarily massive (estimated 30 occasions bigger than the human genome and 600 occasions bigger than the genome of the mannequin plant Arabidopsis thaliana), it has not been sequenced as much as […]