Plant Genomics & Biology Pipeline for investigating plant genes, metabolic pathways, species taxonomy, and comparative plant biology using ToolUniverse tools. Reasoning Strategy Plant genomes are large (wheat is 17 Gb, vs. 3 Gb for human) and often polyploid — wheat is hexaploid (AABBDD), meaning there are three homeologous copies of most genes. When comparing plant genes to Arabidopsis, always account for whole-genome duplications: a single Arabidopsis gene may have 2–4 paralogs in a crop species, all potentially with diverged functions. Gene families are massively expanded in plants relativ…