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With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to … to environmental changes. The program lays the groundwork for sustainable solutions to current problems facing … the vulnerabilities of monocultures and the benefits of nitrogen-fixing nodules in legumes, which can reduce …

Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic … cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and … experimental characterization methods, in addition to bioinformatics tools to elucidate phage function in this …

… about something I can kind of see like the squid and the bacteria and how the chemistry is going back and forth … to do an independent study on ethnobotany of some of the plants that people were using for medicines in this very … that the squid is one– is we work on a lot of host-microbe symbiosis at this point. But the squid is probably the most …

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 …

… … Dan Udwary: Hey everybody! Welcome back for Natural Prodcast episode 17. The guest we have this week … curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and … a check-up on me. And I wonder how that intersects with bacterial bioprospecting that is often done, where we’re …

… material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from … of microbial metabolism towards a minority of cultivated bacteria, still persists to date. Research Team    … … Amann R., Bergin C., Ruehland C., Rubin E.M. & Dubilier, N. Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone. I’ve got a great episode for you here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of … into the secondary metabolism of some more novel marine bacteria. You know, I first met Bill as a postdoc working … local marine environment. I went out and picked up marine plants, I picked up animals. And I asked the simple …

… through the stories I told you about geosmin, which is a bacterial sacred metabolite, and ergot alkaloids come from fungi, and Taxol from plants. Plants, fungi, bacteria, archaea, they all have … so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. You know, we have this …

And a lot of us moved on to work in simpler systems, like bacteria, where we figure we can make more progress faster, … was one where there was a kind of a good well defined symbiosis. The compounds found in those animals were really … transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to …

… to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated with … inter-organismal interactions. These insights are crucial for addressing key environmental challenges, such as … to explore microbial diversity — with an emphasis on bacteria and archaea, and including those associated with …

… bioenergy solutions.  The program has been a pioneering effort in functional genomics since 2012, with a focus on … genome portals, we study lignocellulose decomposition, CO2 fixation, redox reactions, and plant metabolite biosynthesis, synthesizing and …

… focuses on the exploration of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not essential for fundamental growth, provide critical advantages to the …