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… 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 …

… Linking lignin engineering to drought stress resilience: RNA-seq and metabolomic insights … to soil carbon storage during simulated range shifts of plant-fungal symbionts … the gene regulatory networks governing terpenoid-mediated plant environment interactions to enable advanced bioenergy …

… 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 …

… [ Go here to learn more about Tiny Earth and the JGI’s role in the project by watching Amanda Hurley’s presentation … was looking to develop new methods for DNA sequencing of microbes. And what kept breaking our methods was these damn … As a host, and a little bit of my newer work is focused on plants, but in both cases, you know, these molecules are how …

… we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I … could help us to one day develop plants that are more drought-tolerant. These kinds of innovations are … named for a 3-carbon compound that plays an essential role. But other plants, which do CAM, can kind of clam up …

… Genome Science User Facility, the JGI plays a leadership role in providing genome science capabilities to support … drive innovations that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, …

… natural products for agriculture, and his upcoming new role as the Society for Industrial Microbiology and … with a contract manufacturer to actually have them build a plant for production and fermentation and transfer that … But they really span our core science programs which are microbes, and fungi, and algae plants, synthetic biology. …

… Pennacchio PMO Lead, Metabolomics Program Kerrie Barry Plant and Algal Genomics Natasha Brown Supply Chain Manager …

… And so we also sequence a lot of fungi, and we sequence plants. And so we started thinking about if we had a … sees that people are working on that, that lets you sort of plant a little bit of a flag, maybe, but also gets other … association with the potential like, what’s the ecological role? So there’s a lot there that the databases don’t have. …

… and natural product molecules obviously play a huge role in ecology through cell-cell communication, chemical … our eukaryotic genomes, all our eukaryotic genomes. Fungal plant, algal genomes, a lot of effort goes into generating … where smaller proposals may be a fit. Still not 20 many microbes. We still we work in plates, right? We’re a high …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host … fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play key roles in maintaining the plant’s health and diversity, which … but they’re not always immediately apparent. Similarly, the microbes found in plant roots may have unknown roles. Some …

… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and … by the JGI in 2009 and it is considered to be a Flagship Plant. By uncovering and characterizing the mechanisms … that makes up an individual’s genome. The genes of sorghum plants are likely responsible for the crop’s ability to …