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… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and … JGI in 2009 and it is considered to be a Flagship Plant. By uncovering and characterizing the mechanisms through which sorghum is equipped to deal with adverse environmental conditions, researchers hope to …

… of their bacterial host to colonize plant roots, as with Arabidopsis thaliana. Using a coupled experimental and … construct a bioenergy plant single-cell atlas comprising Sorghum, Switchgrass, and Brachypodium datasets. We recently …

… that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Sorghum stands out as a candidate feedstock for biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even with little water, full sunlight and hot temperatures, … Sorghum bicolor on Phytozome …

… dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a resource for breeders and researchers … harness the traits that let this biomass powerhouse thrive. Within its genome, Sorghum bicolor holds keys to drought and flood resilience, biomass production for fuels, …

… fuzzy. The natural products – or secondary metabolism – field, though, is real, and it’s a field with very real and truly amazing science with a long history, and that’s what we’re going to be … and start to cover the basics in this field. This, along with parts 2 and 3, should be a great place to start if you …

… You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn …

… applications will focus on high-risk/high-payoff proposals within the focused topic areas that can be completed on an accelerated timeline as compared with the standard CSP projects. In addition, they must … of funds. All data is made publicly available in accordance with  JGI’s Data Policy . In cases where the JGI provides …

… 2 of our “primer” episode, so if you ended up here somehow without having listened to the first part, you might be a … conversation between myself and Alison, and we continue with the basic ideas of the science of natural products, and we dive into the very early history of the field. If you continue on, in the next episode you’ll hear …

… to tap into the largely unexplored biochemical diversity within secondary metabolites, expanding their potential … plants. These compounds are key to organisms' interactions with their environments and with each other, from defending … in bioenergy, sustainable agriculture, and other fields reliant on natural product chemistry. These efforts …

… encompasses bacteria, archaea, and micro-eukaryoes, along with their associated viruses and mobile genetic elements. … insights into microbial diversity and metabolic potential, with implications for energy production, environmental … Program combines large-scale, time-series metagenomic data with detailed characterization of model systems to explore …

… week is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and … She’s an ethnobotanist and the herbarium curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug … academia, or if you want to understand what it’s like to do field science as a woman and with a physical disability, …