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… focuses on interactions underlying plant adaptation in different environments. He’s been involved in several plant … in fungal genetics and evolution, he helps manage the Bacterial-Fungal Interactions Science Focus Area. He has … focuses on the interactions between seagrasses, considered marine flowering plants, and their microbiomes. She is …

… plant samples we study — and even go beyond, putting four different species in there all at once. That let us profile … for studies on organisms with smaller genomes, such as bacteria and certain fungi. Scaling the technology’s … method,” Baumgart said. “We’ve done it in fungi, plants, bacteria and archaea. It works on basically anything we’ve …

… plant, but it thrives in nutrient-poor, acidic and waterlogged environments, occupying every continent except … reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different microhabitats – Sphagnum fallax and S. … such as sphagnum’s associations with methane oxidizing bacteria, nutrient uptake, and its productivity and …

… or biological samples (like cell media or lake water) without doing a metabolite extraction? Or are these … the plots were irrigated and fertilized to some extent, the water availability, temperature variations etc are all more …

… microbial mats. Inskeep suggested that the thin film of water that runs over the iron-oxide microbial mats at the … oxygen to the Marsarchaeota. “Proving that is an entirely different process,” he added. The Marsarchaeota furnish …

… some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their …

… ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying and … grass that quickly grows in a variety of soils and water conditions, standing taller than basketball star … of their native habitat or cold hardiness zones, they have different levels of performance,” Juenger said. “The novelty …

… this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater ecosystem. …

… an environment that offers limited interactions with wild relatives. …

… with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. Inspired by Randall Munroe’s xkcd …

… and South America.   “Technology was actually quite a bit different than it is today,” Schmutz said. “…It was … expensive and time-consuming and involved a lot of different players and researchers across many different labs to be able to sequence a genome.” Since the …