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… and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Switchgrass … switchgrass genes related to biomass production, drought tolerance, and other traits that make it a viable … has become an important species whose complex genomes are helping breeders understand how they can boost crop …

… Wang Z, Visel A (2013). De novo transcriptome assembly of drought tolerant CAM plants, Agave deserti and Agave …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss … such as UV irradiation, heavy metal contamination, and drought. The moss genomes’ metabolic pathways could lead to …

… Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both … floor: the leaf litter on top of the soil, the roots of the trees, the rhizosphere soil (soil under direct influence of …

… What Wint and her mentors discovered in the genomes helped to reinforce Charles Darwin’s “survival of the … from this project may also have a practical relevance with helping to synthesize codon-optimized fungal genes for … program requires all interns to build presentations that help to explain their work and its impacts at Berkeley Lab …

… associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host health. The Science Researchers … fungi. Their analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The …

… Honeker, University of Arizona (lightning talk): “Effect of drought on soil microbial metabolisms driving carbon … profiling in roots reveals plant specific responses to drought at the Biosphere 2 tropical rainforest” …

… of this metabolism to geochemical data, which in turn can help to understand its impact on climate along earth … five only distantly related to known methanogens. With the help of this information, the researchers found evolutionary … two metabolic pathways “Up to this point, most phylogenomic trees have relied on only one korarchaeotal representative,” …

… benefit from the ETOP program, as tools such as this can help advance genome-centric analyses. DAS Tool will …

… and enhance the rubber biosynthesis pathway in guayale, a drought tolerant shrub. Melissa Roth of the University of …

… and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. While a hill … fueled further research into disease tolerance in crops, drought- and stress-resistance as well as nitrogen fixation; …