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… is that you could, therefore, expect a lot of chemical diversity. So many compounds will fulfill the same function. … about it, the only way a primary metabolite or a primary metabolic pathway is good for anything, it is if the final … it, the evolutionary forces are shaping each part of the metabolic network in each specific organism. Really, what …
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… NIGEL MOUNCEY: Yeah, so we put out a strategic plan in 2018. And in building that plan, we thought about secondary … A few examples of those are obviously expanding the diversity of known secondary metabolites and their … a time and do this so that we can not only access just new diversity, but actually go and explore it and investigate …
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… The CSP and FICUS calls are open to both domestic and … Agreement must be signed before work can begin, and all CSP proposals are subject to JGI policies on Data Release and Publication . Except for applicants to the CSP New Investigator call, investigators may have existing …
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… postdoc Panama as part of the international cooperative biodiversity group (ICBG) based in Panama and was dual there … looking at the tropics because of this immense amount of biodiversity. What we don’t do is spend a lot of time at … I think like Marcy says our field definitely thrives on diversity. Certainly of scientific thought and there’s no …
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… genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as Sorghum bicolor — a candidate bioenergy feedstock and JGI … Science Program . And the work is part of a larger CSP Functional Genomics proposal to understand terpene … overlooked, according to the study’s senior author Alisa Huffaker, a biologist at the University of California, San …
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… and computational analysis, JGI scientists are able to link metabolic activity with gene expression, providing deeper …
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… the user and no granting of funds. Proposal Call FICUS CSP Large Scale CSP New Investigator CSP Functional Genomics JGI-TMF Critical Minerals and …
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… my Peace Corps volunteer stint, and that it was in all the maize. So the main food that you ate was called Papa, which is this maize meal. And he was talking about how all this – …
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… fundamental things, like, are we waking them up? Are they metabolically active and slowly ticking away at these … then, chemistry-wise, they’re the stars, right? Chemical diversity, the sheer number of chemicals they produce, their … in Antarctica on a ship. Yeah, so I went to Antarctica in 2018 as a participant in Homeward Bound 2, last year as …
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… that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Sorghum stands out as a candidate feedstock for biofuels … Even with little water, full sunlight and hot temperatures, sorghum plants can photosynthesize and thrive — some … sorghum plants in drought conditions for three years (2016-2018) in the field in Parlier, California at the UC Kearney …
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… has been doing work in secondary metabolism. The very first CSP I ever worked on back in Brad’s lab, we talked about it … was the Salinispora genome project. And that was a JGI CSP project. They sequenced that genome for us at a time …
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… and increasing demand for agricultural products. Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is an African grass that … and poor soils. This is the first paper that describes sorghum’s response to drought, from a large-scale field … crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), researchers conducted large-scale experiments in the …
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