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… plant host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots … health and diversity, which can in turn boost yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. … colonize roots by degrading the plant cell wall component pectin. The results therefore predicted that these …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated … marine bacteria called “Vis6” that are found in North Sea algal blooms. The workflow starts by tagging specific cells … (HCR-FISH). In contrast to standard FISH where a one probe adds one fluorescent molecule when bound to a …

… 80 full proposals, resulting from 95 letters of intent. For the first time, 63 percent of the accepted proposals … Several accepted proposals reflect JGI’s interest in algal research for bioenergy production and algae’s roles in … more than 10,000 undergraduate students each year. Brian Looney of Duke University is interested in understanding which …

… of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of … the adaptive potential of switchgrass and is a key component in providing genetic variation available for selection … (visible traits) diversity. After our team finished analyzing the diversity present in 4X switchgrass, we were …