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… — and dives into their work on all kinds of organisms, from plants and fungi to microbes and viruses. Listen in to …

… management and strategic objectives of the microbial and metagenome programs. The committee serves as the program's key …

… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups …

… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … strategies used by liverwort are also seen in flowering plants, or angiosperms, suggesting they are evolutionarily … transferred — contributed to the ecological resistance of plants to the Earth’s ever-changing harsh habitats, thus …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing …

… for an encyclopedia of reference genomes for fungal metagenomics. Two more CSP proposals came in 2016 that would … or C-fern — came out in the September issue of Nature Plants . C-fern has a genome approximately three times the … project is its focus on wild species as opposed to crop plants. Because crop plants have been manipulated over time …

… acid metabolism, or CAM — that’s C-A-M, for short — helps plants that have it lose less water in a hot, dry environment. Figuring out how plants evolved to deal with hot and dry conditions could help us to one day develop plants that are more drought-tolerant. These kinds of …

… allow that to bind. Your receptor also typically has some tag so that you can then pull down the receptor with that …

… Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha … time or under specific conditions – in over a dozen plants. To learn more about the project, HudsonAlpha’s … protocols that permit gene expression analysis across plants and add additional experimentally derived biological …

… Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping …