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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 … Dr. Cole’s research focus has been on understanding how microbes can colonize plant roots, focusing on genetic …

Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, … analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program … Nat Biotechnol. 2011; 29: 922-927. Eastwood DC et al. The plant cell wall-decomposing machinery underlies the …

… how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt … ecosystems. Researchers studied P. psychrophila’ s stress response by comparing how it responded to being moved to a … the genetic and metabolic pathways involved in stress responses, scientists can better harness the potential of P. …

… and dynamic metabolite networks of environmental microbes and how they transform their environment. Research …

… use Phaseolus as a test model quite frequently for R&D in plant genomics, because it is an inbred dicot,” Schmutz explained, meaning the plant’s reduced genetic diversity makes it easier to … market classes of beans.” … P. vulgaris on Phytozome … Plant Datasets …

… little water, full sunlight and hot temperatures, sorghum plants can photosynthesize and thrive — some varieties grow … climate has earned it a place on the JGI’s Flagship Plant Genome roster. Sorghum has an important feature in … It performs C4 photosynthesis, which is the fastest way for plants to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and …

… of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use …

… to include in vitro protein-based techniques, algae, and plants, while focusing on understanding the evolution and … (2015) where she co-founded and led the Quantitative Plant Science Initiative (2017-2022), a BER Science Focus … Stübe R, Argüello JM and Merchant SS. (2014) Evolution of a plant- specific copper chaperone family for chloroplast …

Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect …

… evolutionary history. Retaining ancestral features of both plant and animal cells, it shares nearly 7,000 genes with … (a third of those shared by both humans and flowering plants). Its genome also contains hundreds of genes uniquely … stumbled upon an interesting observation in Chlamy. Most plants require the nutrient copper for photosynthesis; …

… organic matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among … trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of scientists studied what happens to the … soil mixture, publishing  the results in  Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions . The results were striking. Adding …