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… metabolites for multiple applications The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains … roles in both the carbon and nitrogen cycles, break down plant mass (think biofuels ), enhance plant health, cause … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges. …
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… 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 …
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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. …
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Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with … remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions, but virtual events and technology enabled a fruitful experience for … and GitHub enabled virtual collaboration. JGI also hosted events to enable students to showcase their work and even a …
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… (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … efficient at photosynthesis, a concern as extreme weather events become more frequent. “A big part of the Danforth … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges. …
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… we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I … close those stomata to prevent water loss, but that also prevents CO2 from coming into the leaf and it basically … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges. …
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Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex …
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… event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers … of how marine microbial communities are affected by warming events. More time-series studies could help researchers … temperatures rise, so do instances of extreme weather events such as hurricanes and droughts. Another one began in …
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To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha … led a team that recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in Nucleic Acids Research . The project …
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… of publications and allowing connections between all systems to maximize the impact of user research. The crucial …
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In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and more. And …
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