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… organisms as had been originally thought. The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that … insights about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar ecosystems. The work by Cavicchioli’s team sheds light on … the range of archaeal symbiotic lifestyles found in the Antarctic lakes and offers a genetically-tractable model system …

… from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported …

… devoted to algae (photosynthetic eukaryotes not including plants), so populated by algal genomes thus defined. We also have some reference plant genomes to help with comparative studies of algae and …

… crop that very efficiently converts solar energy into plant biomass, which can then be crushed to extract the … be further purified to produce alternative biofuels. A C4 plant like sorghum and maize, sugarcane can grow on nutrient-poorer soils and does not need to be planted annually. The modern sugarcane cultivars are …

… of organisms, and new views of how nutrients cycle through ecosystems. Of course, some of those collaborators, like …

… across southern Florida, they encompass a wide range of ecosystems ranging from wetlands to tree islands to …

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

… 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 …

… “This makes it one of the most efficient carbon-sucking ecosystems on the planet,” Lawrence said. For Lawrence, this …

… Terpenes are made via a tangled network of enzymes in plants. To better pinpoint the biosynthetic routes that … productive; more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … synthesis capabilities that push the frontier in areas like plant secondary metabolites, as well.”  Another paper in the …