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… of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a century-and-a-half of lichen research, … of both partners to better understand lichen. The Impact Lichens are a model for inter-kingdom communication … bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens are dominant carbon and nitrogen …

… Corn and sugarcane are among the major high-yield C4 crops, as are the candidate biofuel feedstocks Miscanthus … mechanism to turn off shattering and domesticate crops.” How shattering occurs varies widely between crops, Kellogg … a gene associated with leaf angle, which determines how much sunlight leaves can get and in turn serves as a …

… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or … host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. Understanding how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but these symbiotic interactions …