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… ra-MOR-um) the genus in Latin translates to “plant destroyer” and it has served as just that on a … commonly as Sudden Oak Death or by its acronym, SOD. Of the dozens of Phytophthora species, the most … was released to the public in a highly-cited 2006 publication in the journal Science . This provided a …

… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science … Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science … the ability to adapt to different environments were deeply rooted in the common ancestor of algae and land plants. The …

… organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary across … in warmer waters, including the tropics, tend to be dominated by prokaryotes (microorganisms without a defined … species, including gray whales and humpbacks, migrate to feed in the polar regions. And shrimp dine on the algae that …

… like tiny natural engineers with special skills to break down pollutants and recycle carbon. They were part of an … by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley … a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic and hot spring  …