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… among the major high-yield C4 crops, as are the candidate biofuel feedstocks Miscanthus and switchgrass.  Innumerable … in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, along with … are genes out there that affect this phenotype.’”  Results from A “Massive Amount” of Sequencing  Seed dispersal is …

… assumed that maize synthesizes these compounds via clear, straight pathways, entailing the function of more than a … To uncover the enzymes, the team used a battery of techniques. They screened panels of hundreds of maize lines … ability make zealexins, and harnessed gene expression data from these lines to identify genes associated with zealexin …

… genomes of Dothideomycetes, the largest class of fungi, by lifestyles. The machine “learned” to identify data … class  Dothideomycetes includes fungi that obtain nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant … infect most major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution …

… how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and soil from Washington and Oregon. The cuttings included genotypes … The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in …