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… and ergot alkaloids come from fungi, and Taxol from plants. Plants, fungi, bacteria, archaea, they all have … metabolism is based on primary metabolism. It’s an evolution of primary metabolism. So a lot of the genes and the DNA that’s used for secondary metabolism, they …

As a host, and a little bit of my newer work is focused on plants, but in both cases, you know, these molecules are how … that can’t live without their host. They have no extra genes hanging around, they still dedicate 20-30% of their … not familiar, it’s basically a throwback to “Alice In Wonderland” where the Red Queen just runs faster and faster to …

… approaches to unravel functional capabilities of plants, microbes and microbial communities, global carbon … work will NOT be considered under this program. Plant pathogens will only be considered if they are of relevance to bioenergy-related feedstock crops or model plants. Projects targeting marine systems must clearly …

… the special, natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. … after that I was a professor at the University of Rhode Island for a couple of years before I left that to join a … near this tree and so there was probably some historical evolutionary event where the DNA transferred from the fungus …

… the spatial, temporal, taxonomic (environmental, microbial, plants, invertebrate, and vertebrate), and thematic scope of …

… and actually get to the DNA sequence – sequences for the genes that code for the proteins that produce secondary … for a long time by many, many bacteria – and fungi and plants. And so that’s the power and the promise of, I guess, … and another system. There should be. I mean, there’s some evolution that happened. But, you know, bacteria don’t leave …

… was this?   NANCY: This was in Lesotho. Lesotho is a little landlocked country, in southern Africa. So at the time, I … ag[riculture] and I really liked – I became interested in plant disease in part because of what happened in my Peace … with. So transformation, or manipulation of the DNA of genes and bacteria, occurred much faster earlier than they …

… organisms actually have quite a few antibiotic-resistant genes in there. And so we’re trying to use those as … And so we also sequence a lot of fungi, and we sequence plants. And so we started thinking about if we had a … my career. So when I was at URI, University of Rhode Island, and I was a assistant professor– I was working on a …

… and archaea in their natural environments using single cell approaches. This includes linking strain-level genetic … from isolates and single cells. This effort uncovers novel genes, protein families, and pathways, enhancing our understanding of evolutionary diversification and microbial diversity. Learn …

… cutting-edge research in synthetic biology by synthesizing genes, pathways, and whole chromosomes for bioenergy and … bioinformatics tools and genome portals, we study lignocellulose decomposition, CO2 fixation, redox reactions, and plant metabolite biosynthesis, synthesizing and …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host … genomes on the JGI data portal MycoCosm . They looked for genes known to be involved in fungal-host interactions and … plants (endophytes). These include genes that degrade plant cell walls and break down plant sugars. The results also …