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… Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … down polysaccharides. But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful … found that pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which …

… communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down … mining activities upstream and downstream of the Arkansas. However, recently, there’s been a major restoration effort. … do they adapt by changing what macromolecules are in their biomass, because that affects the quality of the food of …

… research programs for developing methods for converting plant biomass into sustainable fuels for cars and jets. By … to find relationships between sequence variation and plant stress responses. For example, offspring of a cross …

… Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering their …

… most widespread type of mycorrhizal fungi, live within a plant’s root system. They form mutually beneficial … land plants, which means they offer a lot of insights into how plant materials can be broken down for things like biomass and  biofuels . However, AMF and the microbial …

… that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for … interest in harnessing the crop as a versatile candidate biomass feedstock for producing sustainable alternative … in species with large and complex genomes,” said Lovell. “However, new sequencing technologies have allowed us to …