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… common ancestor between Archaea and Eukarya.   One genome, two metabolic pathways “Up to this point, most phylogenomic … representative,” said first author McKay. “Now we’re adding two more: one ( Candidatus Korarchaeum cryptofilum WS) is … and based on metabolic reconstructions, the team has two main hypotheses: the novel korarchaeon could switch …

… less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir …

… Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … called pectin and hemicellulose. While these two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with … pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the bee’s …

… 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, …

… The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) takes place … and how you can use the KBase system to accelerate your plant genomics research. Click here to download a list of … relevant to JGI science at PAG XXVII. On January 14, JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz and  KBase Co-PI Bob …

… developments for improving microbial, metagenomic, or plant genome assemblies. [Download PDF] Q2 – Report on … improving the interpretation of microbial, metagenomic, or plant genomes. [Download PDF] End-of-year Goal – Develop one …

… developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather … change. Through the CSP, researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species … building on the availability of genomic information from two distinct environments, strengthen the case for Sphagnum …

… 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 … terrestris .  Nat Biotechnol. 2011; 29: 922-927. Eastwood DC et al. The plant cell wall-decomposing machinery …