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… (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 … process known as the C4 pathway, which particularly helps plants thrive in warm, arid environments. Corn and sugarcane …

… essential to their economies. It also plays an important role in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds … fueled further research into disease tolerance in crops, drought- and stress-resistance as well as nitrogen fixation; … use Phaseolus as a test model quite frequently for R&D in plant genomics, because it is an inbred dicot,” Schmutz …

… outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the … into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was applied to a recent Nature … by modifying host cell metabolism and altering cell fitness. As the vast majority of viruses remain …