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… — providing a perspective on giant virus diversity, and how sequencing and bioinformatics have sped up the study of … Data Portal were instrumental to  a study that looked into how soil viruses , and in particular a chitosanase protein, … in  a switchgrass study that delved into the nuances of the plant’s genome . A candidate bioenergy feedstock, …

… or 5mC. In many organisms, 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate their genomes, but is not well understood … than 500 species of fungi. The Impact Interactions between plants and fungi run the gamut from mutually beneficial to … that can move to another location in the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf …

… compared to other methods. The Impact Understanding how individual microbes interact with each other in a … functions in processes ranging from nutrient cycling to plant health and growth. Developing a scalable computational … soil microbial communities, is crucial to understanding how these microbes respond and adapt to environmental …

… estimated 2–6 million species — dwarfing the diversity of plants. To put this evolutionary timescale in perspective, … Microbiology of nearly 2,000 of these genomes reveals just how much we still have to discover about Earth's fungal … facing scientists is both logistical and analytical. How can the research community systematically sample an …

… Many fungi have beneficial symbiotic relationships with plants and bacteria; in many instances, fungal physiology is … in learning more about the fungal endophytes of soybean and how they deter two significant pathogens, the soybean cyst … Richard Dick of The Ohio State University aims to study plant drought resilience in the Sahel, an arid region of …

… Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns … you have to perform, the kind of tasks you’re given and how this is going. Tahirah Williams : I hope to gain … was just really, really exciting for me and learning how to use the capabilities of the supercomputers here to …

… Ben Cole on a project involving bacteria in Arabidopsis plant roots. At the same time, Lawrence worked with Nicole … of chemotaxis in the Arabidopsis microbiome, particularly, how bacteria can be driven toward compounds produced by the … the best to use,” he says. “Many academic labs don’t know how to analyze RNA-Seq data very well, sending it out to …

… CSP call had five areas of emphasis: genes to function, plant and algal functional genomics, inter-organismal … and bioproducts. Learn more about our proposals, including how to apply, here on our website. The approved proposals …

… Retracing how the dry rot Serpula lacrymans adapted to a new … the brown rot Serpula lacrymans towards breaking down plant mass for conversion to sustainable, alternative … biofuels and bioproducts. This study lends insights on how the fungus has responded to manmade changes in its …

… components that make it useful for scientific inquiry: it shows a full phylogenetic tree of more than 100 sequenced … experiments; study DNA methylation, which gives clues to how an organism may tune gene expression; and investigate … analysis of fungal genomes, and Phytozome for comparing plant genomes. Kuo and Grigoriev encourage scientists to …