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… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the …

… led a team that  identified a protein , PtrbHLH011, within poplar involved in plant growth, lignin production, and disease resistance.  The … such as cement or adhesives. Described as the “DOE Tree,” poplar is considered one of the  Flagship Plants for … Contract No. DE-SC0012704. The generation of base edited poplar lines was supported by the DOE BER program (No. …

… problem. So explore different media conditions, different growth conditions, really try and understand, without any … do your organic reaction and see if it smells like a pine tree. Like there’s no cookie cutter reactions here, we’re … the lab of Cameron Currie. They work primarily within the “fungus growing ant” system where there is a symbiont, a …

… the public sector: academic and government institutions — with capabilities that had remained largely unknown and … Director Nigel Mouncey joined the JGI in 2017, he brought with him 20 years of industry experience — and an … will connect leading industry and academic organizations with the DOE, National Laboratories, and User Facilities — …

… kinds of biology, one of the best things that we do is work with this really great group of biologists that know what … was getting there but–  DAN: Yeah. I was uncertain of the timing because I know you were down in Panama for it at least … MARCY : It’s getting bacteria from there. We work on a fungus garden ant as well as the American honeybee. And so I …

… are NOT eligible for BERSS support through the JGI (with the exceptions of DE-FOA-0003453 and DE-FOA-0003615 , … Proposals whose scope was not previously negotiated with the JGI will only be accepted pending available capacity, technical review and scope negotiation with the JGI.  Investigators with grants funded by DOE-BER …

… As always, you’ll find transcripts and show notes with links to lots of other resources, especially for these … on all this at http://naturalprodcast.com . And then coming up after that, we’ll have a lineup of international … same kind of way, where we had– aflatoxin is produced by a fungus called Aspergillus . We were mostly working in …

… metabolism – field, though, is real, and it’s a field with very real and truly amazing science with a long … susceptible to a fungal infection of rye grain – a specific fungus, Claviceps purpurea, can infect grain. And when it … But where taxol comes from is, from the bark of the yew tree, is where it was originally discovered. And so that …

… learning to identify new divergent lineages and expand the Tree of Life. We then investigate the coding potential to … lineages sibling to Cyanobacteria associate with eukaryotes in the open ocean .”  Current Biology , … taxonomy and quality assessment of giant virus genomes with GVClass. ”  npj Viruses, Volume 2 Article 60. …

… we’re going to be presenting some conversations we had with scientists in the field of natural products. So, it’s a … Cochliobulis heterostrophis . This is a very well known fungus because it produces a secondary metabolite or natural … messages, or little chemicals to inhibit, usually, the growth of the other microbe. They really are paired. And …

… In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published in the journal Nature . The mushroom has a symbiotic relationship with the poplar, a JGI Flagship Genome and the first tree to have its genome sequenced. Having this first genome …

… out every two weeks. This time, we’ve got a great interview with Ben Shen, from the Scripps Research Institute in … taxol, for example. If you say isolate compound from the trees – if you’re cutting the trees, it takes years to … to different species.  DAN: Yeah, yeah.  BEN: And then for fungus, even more. And of the fungus, we have more than 2600 …