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… Cassandra, you’ll also want to check out her podcast, “Foodie Pharmacology,” where she talks about history, … have worked with directly, or have met at conferences, or just know through professional circles in some way or … funding programs to build up research capacity with our global partners. And I can just give one example of our work …

… An improved genome assembly to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.   The Science Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | … are fast-growing plantation crops that supply wood and fiber for various industrial uses ranging from timber to …

… in the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels, advancing the federal initiative that seeks to reduce … 17 partner institutions. CABBI researchers will develop fuels and products by integrating three highly … a range of plants and, in addition to exploring plant fiber breakdown, aims to increase plant production of …

… not get crazy. ALISON: Someone who works in this field. And just to say that again, I’m excited to talk with you, Dan, … and that we might just kind of happen across them in our food. That’s crazy!  DAN: Yeah, just like the geosmin – … But where taxol comes from is, from the bark of the yew tree, is where it was originally discovered. And so that …

… it was– well, I think the day your visit was planned was just a few days before the due date. Dan Udwary: Oh, no. … still a collaboration, indeed, with my group. And Tilmann Weber ’s group, and in particular, Kai Blin and Simon Shaw … grad student with Michael. And we did it together. Did the global analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters across, well, …

… from candidate phyla, major branches in the phylogenetic tree without cultivated representatives. The “Great … valuable reference genomes in under-populated areas of the tree of life, as reference genomes are critical to serve as … T . Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics.” Nature 578(7795): 432-436 (2020). …

… that creates the DNA sequence. ALISON: Okay. And so maybe just to back up, because you started talking about the … do your organic reaction and see if it smells like a pine tree. Like there’s no cookie cutter reactions here, we’re … the pathogen comes along. So this pathogen preys on the food source for the ants. And the ants, they have a symbiont …

… so that we can start to use the DNA sequence to predict or just understand better the language of microbial cell-cell … the absence of oxygen. But these are the next step in the food web. So these are organisms– if you think about maybe you’re …

… eucalypt lineages. The Science From the distinct smell of eucalyptus to the flavor of wine, terpenes are ubiquitous. A … in industrial materials, pharmaceutical products, and as biofuel precursors. Collectively, hundreds of terpene compounds … have been characterized from eucalypts, a group of 900 tree species belonging to the Myrtaceae (myrtle) family and …

… delves into the natural world’s potential to address global challenges by exploring plants’ role in capturing … to current problems facing humanity. A major focus are biofuel feedstock species and plant-microbe interactions, … biofuels by studying perennial grasses and fast-growing trees as renewable energy feedstocks. It also tackles …

… learning to identify new divergent lineages and expand the Tree of Life. We then investigate the coding potential to … enabling fast and easy construction of phylogenetic trees from user-provided genomes and phylogenetic markers. … NSGTree …

… a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of scientists studied what happens to the tree’s physical traits and gene expression when the fungus …