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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, interacting … our understanding of plants’ biological and ecological roles to foster sustainable solutions for energy, …

… curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and … and take soil and discover a new important drug from the microbes in that soil, there are now international … DNA synthesis, metabolomics. Where do you see the role of a big place like JGI in terms of helping out your …

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 …

The JGI’s Metabolomics Program works to uncover the roles of small molecules in biological systems, linking them … of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With advanced mass … processes, development of high performance plants and microbes, and understanding microbiome interactions. The  …

At the end of the day, all the content produced by microbes the result of millions of years of evolution. And … or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a functional role. We started from that. Evolution doesn’t invent stuff … could be a reasonable number if you are talking about a plant and a microbe interacting very stably. So it makes …

… functional genome annotation, improves understanding of the role small molecules play in diverse biological systems, … variety of experimental samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as different types …

… mechanisms that enable fungi and algae to play a vital role in carbon cycling, biodegradation and biogeochemistry. … of fungi and algae. These organisms play a critical role in ecological processes such as carbon cycling, … functioning — particularly in their roles associated with plants (mycorrhizae, endophytes, growth promoters, or …

Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic … contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by … hold the amazing ability to influence plant development, fitness and health. This is a dynamic and complex ecosystem …

… then doesn’t become your parent anymore, but has this other role in your life. A colleague, ya know, a teacher in many … chemicals that are coming out of organisms, whether it be a plant or from the bottom of the ocean, from a sponge, or a … systems. No one was, at that time, really working with microbes from the ocean. So I felt there was a wonderful …

Genome Science User Facility, the JGI plays a leadership role in enabling the frontiers of research related to DOE’s … drive innovations that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, …

… ag[riculture] and I really liked – I became interested in plant disease in part because of what happened in my Peace … use natural products necessarily. Fungi are large. They’re microbes, but they’re large microbes. And they have all … we’ve come to realize over these decades is that they are fitness factors for the fungus. So it’s really difficult to …

… to do an independent study on ethnobotany of some of the plants that people were using for medicines in this very … activity. So the chemistry and function really of those microbes that live there.  And in our work we’ve determined … anticancer or immune modulatory assays to see what role the compound might be playing in the system and then …