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… orange ripens only bitter, intensely sour fruit. Yet this plant, native to China and now disseminated around the … are senior authors of the  recent study published in  The Plant Journal.  this study included the discovery of … to citrus greening disease. Trifoliate orange may be a plant of bitter fruit, yet sweet are its genetic secrets. …

… a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic and hot spring  … bacteria lack complete biochemical pathways to break down plant material on their own, they likely cooperate with … that the bacteria have enzymes to synthesize or degrade plant hormones, meaning its land-dwelling counterparts could …

… developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather … and climate is estimated to be larger than any other single plant genus. Peatlands accumulate partially decomposed … dioxide. Summary Sphagnum (peat moss) is an unassuming plant, but it thrives in nutrient-poor, acidic and …

… HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Phytozome is the Plant Comparative Genomics portal of the Department of …

… compounds may also be involved in how the fungi metabolize plant biomass, which could inform how scientists can more easily convert plants into carbon-neutral biofuels . What’s more, many … to understand the outsized role the fungi play in digesting plant material in herbivore guts. A deeper dive into the …

… to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled … Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant fibers. But are they both actually doing the job? By … the two groups. Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and bacteria are more active in fixing and …

… Blow, and their team have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied … Ralstonia with enzymes that make phosphate bioavailable for plants. When these engineered bacteria were used with the model plant  Arabidopsis,  the plants grew better than when they …

… Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily absorbable solution of sugars. But pollen contains plant cell walls, which have complex, branching chains of …

… could be generating these observed patterns. As many other plant species have natural cytotype variation, we also hoped … hundreds of naturally-occurring genotypes (in this case, a plant’s complete genetic makeup) and 10 common gardens. We … like switchgrass respond to pronounced climate shifts. (C4 plants use a more efficient form of photosynthesis that …