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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 … fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by …

… 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 …

… from single-gene synthesis to the synthesis of entire chromosomes, advancing the development of biofuels, … biology by synthesizing genes, pathways, and whole chromosomes for bioenergy and bioproduct applications. The … pathway design, and efforts to refactor entire chromosomes, such as a yeast chromosome project. These …

… 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 … used to treat these highly resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens. And we’ve actually just wrapped up a year, a …

… ag[riculture] and I really liked – I became interested in plant disease in part because of what happened in my Peace … contigs. And so most fungi… Oh, the fungi vary in number of chromosomes. Like, ironically, yeast, which has a small … the other half is a pathogenesis person, where I work with pathogens and always fungal pathogens of humans, and plants, …

… 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 … recently published papers was about doing this with human pathogens. And I had an undergrad in the lab who was just …

… Pennacchio PMO Lead, Metabolomics Program Kerrie Barry Plant and Algal Genomics Natasha Brown Supply Chain Manager …

… 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 pathogens. In this …

… functioning — particularly in their roles associated with plants (mycorrhizae, endophytes, growth promoters, or pathogens) and as the most efficient degraders of plant biomass. These abilities are crucial for sustainable … Genomic Encyclopedia of Fungi focuses on aspects of plant feedstock health, biorefinery mechanisms and fungal …

… As a host, and a little bit of my newer work is focused on plants, but in both cases, you know, these molecules are how … and seeing what kind of activity they might have against pathogens from the clinic. At that point, isolates get … human use. So things that we might be able to use against plant pathogens to use in agriculture and animal husbandry. …

… work will NOT be considered under this program. Plant pathogens will only be considered if they are of relevance to bioenergy-related feedstock crops or model plants. Projects targeting marine systems must clearly …