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… fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or … fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy crops more efficiently. Summary …

… and the mechanisms by which plants interact with their microbiomes. In addition, his group conducts comparative … to understand the evolutionary and practical significance of plant pan-genomes including understanding polyploid … study shows highly reproducible physiology and depletion of soil metabolites by a model grass New Phytologist 222: …

Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … pectin and hemicellulose. While these two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of … bacterial clades shared between honey bee and bumblebee gut microbiomes. Researchers found that pollen’s pectin and …

For the past 13 years, Mr. Schmutz has directed the JGI Plant Program, focusing on the organization of community … al.  2024.The complex polyploid genome architecture of sugarcane. Nature 628, 804–810. Sreedasyam, A., Plott, C., MdS … Mamidi, S et al. 2020. A genome resource for green millet Setaria viridis enables discovery of agronomically valuable …