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Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against … entailing the function of more than a dozen enzymes. But researchers have now revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins and related precursors into a bonanza of …

There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds that plants …

Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long …

Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial … Foundation for Innovation, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research through grants awarded to S.J.H. S.J.T. …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes … in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when …

Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to this, … he served as a Research Molecular Biologist at the USDA for 12 years where he was a driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources that fostered the widespread adoption of …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship … the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the … the JGI’s home at Berkeley Lab, as representatives highlighted the benefits of this collaboration.  JGI Director …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and breed cultivars for the next …

A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale … approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into … potential as carbon sinks and minimize their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses … by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon …