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… from that decay, and deliver those nutrients to tree roots and soil. These fungi help shape a forest’s ecology. … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for … mycorrhizal symbionts shuttle water and nutrients to trees; plant pathogens colonize living plants to feed on them.  …

… that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for … (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  genome using samples … many parts of the country also helped the team understand why some switchgrass plants from the Northeast have traits …

… to as natural products, the proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then … to crowdsource antimicrobial discovery for the control of plant pathogens, partnering with 600 instructors worldwide … is interested in understanding which species of mycorrhizal fungi are important for poplar plant health, in part to …

Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to drought. …