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… common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts and floods. The planet’s … by the JGI in 2009 and it is considered to be a Flagship Plant. By uncovering and characterizing the mechanisms … gene expression in that set, implicated in AMF interactions, was dramatically reduced as a result of …

… little water, full sunlight and hot temperatures, sorghum plants can photosynthesize and thrive — some varieties grow … climate has earned it a place on the JGI’s Flagship Plant Genome roster. Sorghum has an important feature in … sorghum plants in drought conditions for three years (2016-2018) in the field in Parlier, California at the UC …

… of chemicals called terpenes. Terpenes are important in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions, and also have industrial applications, … ) and a bacterium that causes wilting ( Pantoea stewartii ) were much more severe when the zealexin biosynthetic …

… is not limited to  Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to … You don’t have tunnel vision anymore, only seeing the microbes you can grow in the lab — suddenly you see … — like anaerobic respiration, or fermentation.  “Both these microbes are capable of other ways to conserve energy,” …

… nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant pathogens known to infect most major food crops and … clusters showed a >95 % accuracy in correctly predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S … and also provides more information about speciation events. … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of …

… of User Programs. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  … The Deputy of … Editorial Board Member for ISME J (Senior Editor 2016-2021), Peer J (2015-2019), Scientific Data (2017-2019). … 499-509. Schulz et al. 2020. Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics. Nature 578, …