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… brands couldn’t exist without cocoa.  But today the plant is under threat due to climate change and devastating … with others to develop healthier and more productive cacao plants and ensure there will be cocoa for chocolate tomorrow … Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology . …

… to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples around the … of 135 fungal sequenced genomes to understand how plants and fungi developed symbiotic relationships, and how the mutualistic associations allow host plants to acquire nutrients. The papers appeared in  Studies …

… organic matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among … trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of scientists studied what happens to the … Program in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team …

… genomics. Fungi can be better understood through reference genomes, but unfortunately there are not many available to … study. This is because most fungal clades have no reference genomes. It’s a key problem to solve because fungi are very … and analysis at the JGI to help produce novel fungal genomes. They manually curate data to connect to the newly …

… results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for … most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ … like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital …

… targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid of two … develop genome-scale engineering technologies to control plants and microbes for bioproducts and biomaterial … than other algae, Auxenochlorella ’s reduced genomic complexity can accelerate the design-build-test cycle for …