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… to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic … 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. …

… for non-model organisms, modulating microbe-microbe and plant-microbe interactions in various environments to improve crop yield, …

… in the sequencing and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s … on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity of plants and animals by combining computational genome … In addition to this evolutionary focus, his work on plant genomics is targeted towards the development of …

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

… and how the outcomes of these infections can affect the interactions within their ecosystems. Summary Microbes drive … with a marine phage-host model to study virus-host-nutrient interactions. In  their study , which appeared in  The ISME …

… metagenome datasets, MycoCosm for comparative analysis of fungal genomes, and Phytozome for comparing plant genomes. Kuo and Grigoriev encourage scientists to …

… metagenome datasets, MycoCosm for comparative analysis of fungal genomes, and Phytozome for comparing plant genomes. Kuo and Grigoriev encourage scientists to …

The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are … genome references are now available for male and female plants of fire moss. Most notably, the work revealed that …

… roles in both the carbon and nitrogen cycles, break down plant mass (think biofuels ), enhance plant health, cause diseases, and produce antibiotics. … organisms to respond to environmental stresses or mediate interactions with each other (sometimes antagonistic ones, …

… that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of … the first time to comprehensively characterize viral-host interactions. The team discovered that the mat’s viruses … virus and host pairs in the laboratory to study their interactions. This work,  recently published in  The ISME …

… play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and … basis and ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from … Summary Symbiotic relationships are long-term biological interactions between one or more biological organisms. One …