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… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side … to identify a gene called Less Shattering 1 (SvLes1); gene editing studies led by co-first author Pu Huang confirmed …

… Innovative technology from this biomanufacturing collaboration is available for licensing. The Science In  Nature Communications , researchers … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” … took place a million years apart: the individual with a maternal  B. distachyon parent (D plastotype) some 1.4 million … S plastotype was a more recent event (0.14 Mya) with a maternal  B. stacei parent. The analysis also revealed that …

… collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address global challenges by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with … The Plant Program advances our understanding of plants’ biological and ecological roles to foster …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The … In  their study , which appeared in  The ISME Journal , they focused on how virus-infected microbes are … in one proposed research project. For this project, RNA sequencing was done by the JGI, and proteomics and …

… second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate … and nitrous oxide). Summary To do this work, the international scientific team led by Petr Baldrian of the Czech … the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from their soil samples. This …

… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant … for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference fungal  genome … The authors acknowledge their funding sources: Office of Biological and Environmental Research …