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… protect other crops facing similar pathogens. Summary Many plants, sugarcane included, are polyploid and have multiple … caused by the fungus,  Puccinia melanocephala . This plant pathogen used to cause sugarcane crop losses of up to … The reference genome of R570 is available on the JGI plant data portal,  Phytozome .   … The work (proposal: …

Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered … new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens.  …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … of topics related to structural biology, single cell and systems biology, omics, and big data science, machine … science, energy conversion and water treatment as well as microbial ecology with a focus on metabolism and ecosystem …

… organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants … known as polyploidy. The multiple copies arise from past genome duplication, which occurs in two basic ways. In … the subgenomes we came up with a simple series of events leading from multiple small wild strawberry species …

… 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 …

… natural products, including new ones. The Impact In the past, natural products have been an important source of … compounds may also be involved in how the fungi metabolize plant biomass, which could inform how scientists can more … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. …