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… biological contexts. The program fosters intimate, dynamic interactions, offering an unparalleled platform for …

… 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. …

… cells take three days to make, which is a really exciting jump in the rate of product formation.” This was the first …

… Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering their growth program, and on how plants coordinate their gene expression with light and …

… genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects.  More recently, these long-reads …

… the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely … work was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of … from each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, archaea, protist, plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify …

… With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The …

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

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

… 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 …

… 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, …

… fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii … ancient gene transfers from bacteria have all armed the plant with an array of defense mechanisms. The Impact There … The insertion of transposable elements — also known as “jumping genes” because they can change position within a …