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A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum … of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, …

… and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and … of plant cell walls, which range from simple to complex carbohydrates, and then convert them into simple sugars. More … Academy of Sciences . Researchers applied multiple omics techniques to reconstruct and model the gene regulatory …

… 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 associated with carbon dioxide capture and the generation of biomass, making …

… to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled … to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to discover what carbon- and nitrogen-metabolizing enzymes are abundant, and to … the forest floor: the leaf litter on top of the soil, the roots of the trees, the rhizosphere soil (soil under direct …

… genetic material of Olpidium. They inoculated cucumber roots with zoospores of Olpidium bornovanus and allowed the … genetic material with various origins, ranging from fungi, plants to bacteria. Back in 2011 when these genome and … fungi predate the oldest known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments. …

… visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more …

… fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii … ancient gene transfers from bacteria have all armed the plant with an array of defense mechanisms. The Impact There … will illuminate the evolutionary history of a pivotal plant as well as the evolution of seed plants, the fern’s …

Terpenes are made via a tangled network of enzymes in plants. To better pinpoint the biosynthetic routes that … to foster interdisciplinary collaborations,” says Philipp Zerbe, the lead PI on this project. “I view the program as … of DNA constructs encoding a molecular tool to repress targeted genes in the organism. The team demonstrated that …

… approaches, that species specific sets of single cells harbored mobile genetic elements that were missed within … and uncultivated microbes through metagenomics. Such techniques take advantage of bioinformatics tools for … used as a complement to isolate sequencing, i.e. when the targeted cells cannot be cultivated in the lab. What makes …

… with Paul Hergenrother at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. And, when I was working with him, I was … with Bill Metcalf, also at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I had a two body problem, and it was a … things very distal from them. So just because they're nearby doesn't necessarily mean they won't. They've been turned …

… understand — and harness — the superpowers encoded in plants, fungi, microalgae, environmental viruses, and …

… these sugars. To demonstrate the versatility of this novel technique, Alper and his team also applied this method to a …