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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, …

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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 … EMSL Omics Tools introduces the NEON resource, a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 8 of Natural Prodcast. This week, we have our conversation with Professor Eric Schmidt, from the University of Utah. … and love the idea of working on harder organisms, with the kinds of challenges that usually lead to surprises … two things together. And natural products is one of those fields that you can do it. So, it seems like a rational …

… pathways. And today, we get to present our conversation with Marnix Medema , from Wageningen University in the … really good to maybe start with how did you get into this field? How did you get into natural products? Marnix Medema: … it this way. So before there were basically two ways of dealing with sequence similarity, either we just looked at …