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The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe … Foundry, and the study’s senior author. In other proteins, two histidine residues can be found to sandwich an … studied, that sandwich has an additional outer layer — two zinc ions, a component they’ve named a zinc-mirror heme …

… data gave the team unprecedented resolution to study the network of genes that contribute to the metabolisms that … distinct clusters, or ecotypes. These ecotypes fall into two main groups: two ecotypes dwell in the sunlit upper waters (above 200 m, …

… carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such as plant litter and to incorporate the assimilated carbon into … assistance from co-habitant microorganisms were unmasked. Plant polysaccharides such as starch and cellulose were … mechanism can keep the forests from over-accumulation of plant litter, which could cause forest fires. Compared to …

After working on his post-doctoral position with the Plant and Microbe Interaction group at Oak Ridge National … values which are integral to what I do on a daily basis. Two of the most relevant are service and respect, and I live …

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… industry-level work and coding. Receive mentorship, network and gain connections with lab staff. Increase their …

… of five previously uncharacterized prokaryotes, including two bacteria isolated by their lab. KBase was used to … assemble and annotate the taxonomy and function of these two isolates. The combined taxonomic and functional …

… 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 … rich in transposons, which may help the pathogens evade a plant’s defenses. Understanding the role of transposons and …

… work included investigating sphagnum moss and the role the plant’s sex plays in its resiliency, as well as a Nature Plants study identifying colonization patterns in eelgrass . … fungi’s ability to break down lignin , the hardiest of plant components and a key barrier when breaking down …

… a regulator of lipid metabolism in microalgae .  Nature Plants 1: 15107 Lupiáñez DG, Kraft K, Heinrich V, Krawitz P, … De novo transcriptome assembly of drought tolerant CAM plants, Agave deserti and Agave tequilana. BMC Genomics  14, …

… industry-level work and coding. Receive mentorship, network and gain connections with lab staff. Increase their …