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… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address global challenges by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, … humanity. A major focus are biofuel feedstock species and plant-microbe interactions, advancing efforts to create …

… Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic … contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by … and computational genomics to better understand the plant-associated terrestrial world. Research Team    …

… enhance our understanding of genome science, organisms, and ecosystems at the molecular level. Integrating genomics with … of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With advanced mass … biogeochemical processes, development of high performance plants and microbes, and understanding microbiome …

… experimental approaches to assess microbial activity across ecosystems.  By studying microbial communities and their … innovations that could advance our understanding of Earth’s ecosystems. … uncover the complex interactions and functions that shape ecosystems. By decoding the microbial DNA in natural …

… The Plant Program Advisory Committee is chartered to offer … on the effective management and strategic objectives of the plant program. The committee serves as the program's key …

… In an effort to gain better understanding of complex ecosystems within hard to sequence and assemble samples, such as those from soil and plants, our group researches the use and implementation of …

… to do an independent study on ethnobotany of some of the plants that people were using for medicines in this very … and my masters, but I ended up starting a master’s in plant ecology. And that masters helped me to figure out that … you actually have done some work at the polls or is it the Arctic or Antarctic but you’ve gone to retrieve some …

… curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and … written a book about her life and her science, called The Plant Hunter , and I have to say it’s so awesome! For those … at the intersection of traditional medicines and medicinal plants with the pursuit of modern drug discovery. It’s also …

… tools and genome portals, we study lignocellulose decomposition, CO2 fixation, redox reactions, and plant metabolite biosynthesis, synthesizing and … Phytozome is the JGI's Plant Comparative Genomics portal. Families of related genes …

… of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not essential for … metabolites produced by bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These compounds are key to organisms' interactions … cell free-based expression platforms, tools and data for deciphering regulatory networks, and refining experimental …

… called “disease suppression”, where the microbiome of a plant, so the bacteria living on and inside the roots are protecting the plants against pathogens. So usually fungal or oomycete … the soil, the protective effect is gone. You can transplant the effect by taking the microbial fraction out of one …