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… focused around how to best work together to achieve great success. “For the most difficult challenges, no one agency has … Todd Anderson currently works to support understanding of plants, microbes and environmental communities that have … small, easier to deal with and before they grow into big headaches.” He reminisced over the building of the …

… different campuses with this being our largest and most successful one. It’s proven to be a really good model for us … After working on his post-doctoral position with the Plant and Microbe Interaction group at Oak Ridge National … relevant are service and respect, and I live these values by being able to pass along my knowledge to them as best as …

Rumen microbes have the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans … scientists to study microorganisms that can’t be cultured by analyzing and then extrapolating data obtained from … coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from these environmental samples,” said Matthias …

… evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … to any type of lignin breakdown — and lignin breakdown by anaerobic fungi therefore thought to be impossible.  And … clues left some researchers wondering if perhaps the accepted narrative wasn’t quite accurate, and maybe anaerobic …

… to see beyond the beam — worse, they didn’t even know how big the room is.  A new study  published online Oct. 11, … power of more than 26,000 microbiome datasets, all accessible through the publicly available  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database, they successfully …

… less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir … crops.  One grass they studied just happened to be the same species that covered World Cup pitches in 2022.                     …

… metabolites portal within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system known as IMG-ABC. … it is a BGC repository that aspires to FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reproducible) principles and … BGC sequences. Expansion of the SMC to include fungal, plant, viral, and metagenome data is currently underway. … …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, … Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got …

Phytozome workshop held during the June 2022 CROPS Conference at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Phytozome is the Plant Comparative Genomics portal of the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, and facilitates accurate and insightful comparative genomics studies. …