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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, … to environmental changes. The program lays the groundwork for sustainable solutions to current problems facing …

… Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic … cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and … contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by …

… 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 … scientific relevance and quality. The Committee does not perform management functions nor does it direct the Program's …

… is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in … insights into viral evolution and complexity, and encode for a treasure trove full of novel genes ready to be tapped for downstream applications. …

… 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    … show that the gap between cultivated and uncultivated Bacteria and Archaea has steadily been widening since 2005. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… bioenergy solutions.  The program has been a pioneering effort in functional genomics since 2012, with a focus on … by synthesizing genes, pathways, and whole chromosomes for bioenergy and bioproduct applications. The program has … gene synthesis, combinatorial pathway design, and efforts to refactor entire chromosomes, such as a yeast …

… 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 …