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… nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant pathogens known to infect most major food crops and … clusters showed a >95 % accuracy in correctly predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S …

… accessible metagenomic datasets from a wide variety of ecosystems around the world, conducting iterative searches …

… mangroves. “Mangroves and their microbiomes are important ecosystems for carbon cycling . If you look at the space … which is a process analogous to photosynthesis for plants.” Another outstanding question is whether the new …

… Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to global oceans. Through the Community … Many fungi have beneficial symbiotic relationships with plants and bacteria; in many instances, fungal physiology is … Richard Dick of The Ohio State University aims to study plant drought resilience in the Sahel, an arid region of …

… are often less diverse than those within more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage …

… Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily absorbable solution of sugars. But pollen contains plant cell walls, which have complex, branching chains of …

… gene functions that may be relevant to both algae and land plants.  Within the biogeochemistry group, one of the four … allow them to better understand the impacts of drought on plant metabolism and particularly, what happens in the rhizosphere where plants, microbes and soil interact below the ground, …

… Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns … study of root colonization by resident phages of a plant growth promoting bacterium. And my mentor is Dr. …

… could be generating these observed patterns. As many other plant species have natural cytotype variation, we also hoped … hundreds of naturally-occurring genotypes (in this case, a plant’s complete genetic makeup) and 10 common gardens. We … like switchgrass respond to pronounced climate shifts. (C4 plants use a more efficient form of photosynthesis that …

… species to answer questions about how they break down plant materials, which could be useful for industrial …