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… entire event. All participants are expected to be familiar with this policy. Our aim in hosting an event is to build a …

… of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not essential for … to tap into the largely unexplored biochemical diversity within secondary metabolites, expanding their potential … metabolites produced by bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These compounds are key to organisms' interactions …

… (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 green millet (Setaria viridis), a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon fixation process …

… biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even with little water, full sunlight and hot temperatures, sorghum plants can photosynthesize and thrive — some varieties grow … share this photosynthetic pathway. However, neither crop shares sorghum’s hardiness, so understanding sorghum’s …

… 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 … stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes …