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… about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Natural products, secondary … metabolites, and specialized metabolites all refer to the chemicals that make species unique and different from one … research, “Natural Prodcast” serves as an important line of communication to the scientific community. Host Dan …

… … DAN: Hey, everybody. Welcome back for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the … that eat methane, so they can use methane gas as their sole source of carbon and energy. And it was before group meeting … to identify what’s being made. In some cases it might be novel, in some cases it might be– might be a known structure …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling … with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do so, these …

Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere … organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … can’t fulfill by fixing nitrogen and using it as an energy source. No fungi are known to be able to do this. JGI and …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. … Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon … research on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots.  …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US. .Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … is to create a course and a network of people to crowd-source antibiotic discovery. So like I just mentioned, … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I wanted to tell … Antibiotics, yeah, to fight each other to over scarce resources. Yeah. BRIAN BACHMANN: Or to communicate. DAN … in order to put them together to build pathways, to make novel compounds, or to find analogs. And that was Warp …

Annotated GenBank File There are several easy-to-use open source tools for converting DNA sequence files into well-formed GenBank files. ApE is an open source desktop application written by M. Wayne Davis or … add the characters “.gb” (no quotes, just .gb) to the end of your file name. …