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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: …

… had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California … and the organization of the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Meeting. Any investigator who has been an active user of the JGI at any time in the past two fiscal years is eligible for election to the UEC. …

They are abundant representatives of deep subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses … Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical … funding by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation (grant number G-2017-9955), the Ministry of Culture and Science of North …

… 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 …

Isotope Bonds in Proteins. ” Yu Lu : ”I really enjoyed meeting and getting to know many of the scientists that work … learned so much in terms of scientific approach and as a plant biologist, I have learned so many techniques and … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great …

… broad distribution indicate multiple, independent origin events? Do the cytotypes react differently in response to … could be generating these observed patterns. As many other plant species have natural cytotype variation, we also hoped … and adaptation mediated the response of switchgrass to past climate change will provide unprecedented insight into …

… 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. …

… team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among … with their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, California, …