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… and environmental challenges. Switchgrass is a native, shrubby grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil … data portal Phytozome. The combination of field data and genetic information has allowed the research team to … study his student conducted involving fungal rust pathogen resistance. Just as the common gardens have …

… by our research team surveying the genomic and phenotypic diversity across the natural range of switchgrass found that … of switchgrass and is a key component in providing genetic variation available for selection to improve biofuel … because 8X switchgrass is generally thought to harbor less genetic and phenotypic (visible traits) diversity. After our …

… Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements … taken stock of the current state of microbial genomic biodiversity. Using publicly available genome sequence data … the estimated diversity of Bacteria and Archaea With phylogenetic diversity standing in as a representative measure of …

… endobacteria, the Rhizopus fungus cannot act as a plant pathogen, it cannot reproduce asexually, and researchers … host. Using the mutualistic relationship between the plant pathogenic fungus Rhizopus microsporus (Rm) and Burkholderia … transition occurs. Rhizopus is a fungal pathogen of crops, including candidate bioenergy feedstocks …

… Leaves grow discolored and rust pustules develop as the pathogen feeds on its soybean host, which is maintained … genome for the fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi , a major pathogen of soybean that causes ASR.  “I love working with … “All along the way, it was just like rediscovering genetics, with the evolution of sequencing technologies and …

… ALISON TAKEMURA: I know that it’s looking in the genome for genetic elements of interest, you know, something like … want to explain that to someone who doesn’t know much about genetics or anything else, science wise maybe, what genome … Yeah, bacteria sound like a good place, to me, to look for diversity because there are so many bacteria, because it is …