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… mean, you might be producing things at different stages of growth or different signals from the environment might cause … blob – sort of overexposed – but this this white blob is a fungus called Penicillium . Now called Penicillium . And so … saved millions of lives since then. So, Penicillium is a fungus. But as people sort of started exploring these kinds …

Cochliobulis heterostrophis . This is a very well known fungus because it produces a secondary metabolite or natural … might get you a little confused as to which species the fungus actually belongs to. I don’t know. It’s really … messages, or little chemicals to inhibit, usually, the growth of the other microbe. They really are paired. And …

The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest growing trees in the … remarkable genetic secrets that bring us closer to making poplar an economical and sustainable source of energy and …

… the molecular level. Integrating genomics with metabolomics fuels the discovery  of novel metabolites, genes, and …

… taxol, for example. If you say isolate compound from the trees – if you’re cutting the trees, it takes years to … to different species.  DAN: Yeah, yeah.  BEN: And then for fungus, even more. And of the fungus, we have more than 2600 different species. But you …

In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published in the journal Nature . The mushroom has a symbiotic relationship with the poplar, a JGI Flagship Genome and the first tree to have its genome sequenced. Having this first genome …

… we talked about sponges, go pull a sponge or extract some tree bark. And so you’re just taking something, you’re … using biological systems. You know, if we had had the fungus that was making the Taxol rather than the tree – if we had found that first – it would have been much …

These molecules, which are not essential for fundamental growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms … their potential applications in the bioeconomy including biofuels, biochemicals and sustainable agriculture. … The …

… at some topic that I’m working with about now. I made a tree of different compounds, and I’d looked at it from an … on structural biology of these compounds. And they saw the tree, and I explained to them how I would interpret it. And … that would happen then!” And like, oh, you see that in my tree? And so it’s just one example of how you can see the …