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… they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone …

… of genome and computational technologies, in the coming years the Wang group will continue its effort to explore new …

… look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every … the simplest cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders … lineages had dispersed and diversified over a million years ago, their genomes were “remarkably” stable. “We …

… biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant …

CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial … active secondary metabolites and helping them identify and describe the functions of the biosynthetic gene … highly regulated in bacteria, making it difficult to identify which pathway corresponds to which metabolite. Finding a …

… dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched … proposal. The next step for the team was to try to identify what natural products the fungi were making. So, Trent … Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. 1650114, a UCSB Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, …