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… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to this, he served … for Science where he studied the molecular basis of a plant host’s susceptibility to pathogens. Dr. Vogel’s current research is focused on … BS in Plant Science, Cornell University, NY; PhD in Biology, …

… of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver … stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms rearrange their cells …

… Advisory Committee, the Informatics Advisory Committee, the Plant Program User Advisory Committee, the Prokaryote …

… we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG conference, when in-person … with JGI, in which she’s studying a special kind of plant metabolism. This metabolism, called crassulacean acid …

… drive innovations that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, …

… explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has desirable properties as … global source of both protein and oil was also the largest plant project completed by the JGI. It has since been cited … with the JGI on multiple projects involving rust pathogens. “All along the way, it was just like …

… help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass … years evolving tactics against potential threats. “Because plants can’t run away, they’ve evolved these really tough … engineer at the University of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a fight, but it’s an …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop … The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are …

… samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as different types …