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… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with … sharing.  Recently, researchers have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events … a limiting factor – before or after flowering. For the study, the team grew two sorghum varieties: one that …

Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a long … the OGG. For a long time, C-fern has served as a model for studying ferns and for teaching plant biology. It is typical …

… in 2010. As the Deputy for Science Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic initiatives at the JGI. Dr. Visel received … developed novel tools for large-scale in situ gene expression analysis in multicellular organisms. During his …

… data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree … Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples from four sites: …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

… zu Berlin   has developed an atlas that maps gene expression patterns in the  Arabidopsis root, profiling nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  … by neighboring cells in these processes.   One of the study’s co-authors is  Benjamin Cole , a research scientist …

… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … plant biologist at West Virginia University (WVU), led the study’s international team, which included scientists from …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his … slides and anticipating the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on …