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… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, … thus allowing them to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. …

… 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 …

… of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver … grasses, like sorghum and switchgrass. We’re optimizing systems now, so that we can get those working,” Cole said.  … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

… joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research … of Maryland School of Medicine and her graduate work in microbial oceanography at Scripps Institution of … She stepped into the Metagenome Program Lead position in 2017. She also leads the DOE’s multi-lab National Microbiome …

… first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal … and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE) in her first microbial ecology paper in the journal PLoS One . “Puerto … Ul-Hasan noted. “I spent a good portion of 2016 and all of 2017 looking for  C. californicus across the California-Baja …

… plans to analyze and distribute data through the  DOE Systems Knowledgebase (KBase) , a free, open source data … The work builds upon a pilot project to sequence antimicrobial-producing strains. Established by Handelsman, Tiny … to crowdsource antimicrobial discovery for the control of plant pathogens, partnering with 600 instructors worldwide …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing … But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and …

… (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them back to the lab. The weedy grass was … efficient at photosynthesis, a concern as extreme weather events become more frequent. “A big part of the Danforth …

… discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial symbiosis.  This is a continuation of the previous … lineages in biogeochemical cycles and beyond, as well as microbial symbioses. We aim to foster discussions centered … to capture, define, quantify, and functionally characterize microbial diversity. The Symposium will also focus on …