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… revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental … (INRAE). Today, there are nearly 200 mycorrhizal fungal genomes publicly available on the fungal portal …

… insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused … In addition, this work reflects a collaboration between two programs within different Divisions of the Office of …

… insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for … allows  Miscanthus to both inform and benefit from breeding programs of related candidate bioenergy feedstock crops such … to novel traits.  M. sinensis is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets …

… and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that … in the lichen lifestyle. The team’s results appear in  BMC Genomics . To explore the genomes, Armaleo and colleagues worked with Igor Grigoriev, the Fungal & Algal Program lead at the US Department of Energy …

… it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a plethora of … in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that … buck. The research team reports that transferring just four genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as  …

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… when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break … dataset was particularly important for characterizing fungal genes, because, unlike bacteria, they often carry …

Natural Prodcast to come. Thanks for listening, and enjoy our talk with Aaron Puri. DAN: Jackie, we have one of your colleagues here today! JACKIE: We do. It is very … you want to give us a little intro into just what sparked your interest in getting into natural products. DAN: Why are …