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With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into … world’s potential to address global challenges by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, … Research spans diverse areas — from understanding how terrestrial plants and phytoplankton capture atmospheric …

Below is a brief description of the process needed to prepare and … and PacBio sequencing workflows and provide guidance as to how to perform sample QC prior to shipment: Importance of … Guidance for sample collection and storage (from PacBio) Best practices for High Molecular Weight DNA extraction and …

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… … Dan Udwary: Hey everybody! Welcome back for Natural Prodcast … , and I’ll link out to everything in the show notes, as always, at naturalprodcast.com . And, if you … nothing for. We’re also working on organisms, pathogenic fungi like Candida aureus in the lab and we work on …

…   The JGI’s Secondary Metabolites Program focuses on the exploration of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not … defense, nutrient acquisition and communication. Studying how these compounds are biosynthesized and their roles in …

The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and … studies. These efforts seek to improve understanding of how fungi and algae contribute to ecosystems and industries. …

… … DAN: Hey Marcy!  ALISON: Hey Marcy?  MARCY: Hello. How’s it going?  DAN: Good. How are you?  MARCY: Am fine. I … to chemistry. And as I was doing my chemistry work I really became more and more interested in cancer drug discovery and … working on that aspect and it’s quite active against some fungi. But we’re also really interested in distribution. So …

Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity … all contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by … is a dynamic and complex ecosystem that includes bacteria, fungi, viruses. Resident viruses can be found in a myriad of …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or … Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) studied how fungi associate with roots in A. thaliana plants. The …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint … biosynthetic pathway, and I’ll have to do a whole show on it one of these days. If you listen to the Nancy … marine organisms. Except during the time that we worked in fungi. But what do you see as the overall theme of your …

… sequences. As always, you’ll find transcripts and show notes with links to lots of other resources, especially … in the earlier primers. In bacteria, at least, and in most fungi, biosynthetic gene clusters, which are the genes that … analogous, actually, to gold mining. And so genome mining became the term that really kind of fit and stuck. ALISON …

So it was great to hear her passion and enthusiasm for fungi. And we talk a lot about some of the technical …   DAN: I guess I wanted to start, maybe just by asking you how did you get into the field of natural products?   NANCY: … I got interested in ag[riculture] and I really liked – I became interested in plant disease in part because of what …