"And particularly it's exciting because it's a plant.” New research shows that the genome size of this fork fern species… is estimated to be more than 50 times the size of a human genome. :: Ilia ...

May 31 (Reuters) - You thought the living organism with ;/"he largest genome might be the blue whale, an African elephant or perhaps a giant redwood tree? Not even close. A human being? Wrong again.

A fern from a Pacific island carries 50 times as much DNA as humans do. Tmesipteris oblanceolata, a fern growing in a forest on an island east of Australia. “It doesn’t catch the eye,” said Jaume ...