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… most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… And sometimes, in terms of biological activities– like antimicrobial or something– sometimes a little difference is … of new chemistry, and we want to understand the antimicrobial-resistant era, we need new chemistry. If we want … in Glasgow, Scotland. Dr Duncan’s work focuses on marine microbial chemical ecology. We also discuss Actinobase, …

… with the poplar, a JGI Flagship Genome and the first tree to have its genome sequenced. Having this first genome … Genome Inside: THE Bioenergy Tree …

… we talked about sponges, go pull a sponge or extract some tree bark. And so you’re just taking something, you’re … had the fungus that was making the Taxol rather than the tree – if we had found that first – it would have been much … of sequencing is needed to be able to map that evolutionary tree to better understand these pathways and how they …

… crops, enhance biomass conversion efficiency, and discover microbial pathways for producing biofuels, biochemicals, and … Critical Minerals and Materials (CMM): Genomic studies of microbial and plant metabolism reveal biological routes to … of animal and insect microbiomes, or on plant pathogens not associated with bioenergy- or bioproduction-relevant host …

… Frankia . And so the Frankia are bacteria that live in the root nodules of plants. And these guys were sequenced, and … Frankia, and probably other bacteria that also live in the root nodules. And it provides – the plant provides a little … amino acids, and things that they secrete out into the root nodule, and help condition that nodule, and communicate …

… Download plant, algal, fungal and microbial genomes and metagenomes — top-quality genomic … genome and metagenome sequencing projects, and their associated metadata, around the world. … provides tools for analyzing the functional capability of microbial communities based on their metagenome sequence, in …

… a different peptide, which might lead you to changes in bioactivity, and new uses for these peptides in medicine or …

… to study how these molecules made, how do you test the bioactivity, how do you tinker with the machinery. And so it … are familiar with JGI’s IMG data portal , the Integrated Microbial Genomics, there was a subsection of that called … and they used that on all of IMG’s genomes. But IMG is microbial genomes — mostly bacteria and archaea. And we knew …

… dozens of them. Some are going to be involved in antibiotic activity, some are going to be involved in signaling. We’re … do your organic reaction and see if it smells like a pine tree. Like there’s no cookie cutter reactions here, we’re … Canada. I just got back from a conference in Canada on antimicrobial resistance sponsored by the Garner foundation. And …

… Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both … enough for a microbial community like that from a temperate coniferous forest floor — which Baldrian’s team was … the forest floor: the leaf litter on top of the soil, the roots of the trees, the rhizosphere soil (soil under direct …