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… Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily absorbable solution of sugars. But pollen contains plant cell … honey bee gut. Early on, monosaccharide sugars can be absorbed, but the complex polysaccharides — the pectin and …

… endobacteria, the Rhizopus fungus cannot act as a plant pathogen, it cannot reproduce asexually, and … the host. Using the mutualistic relationship between the plant pathogenic fungus Rhizopus microsporus (Rm) and … Rm-Burkholderia relationship, Rhizopus is neither a plant pathogen nor able to reproduce with ease. So far, all …

… and also because 8X switchgrass is generally thought to harbor less genetic and phenotypic (visible traits) diversity. … could be generating these observed patterns. As many other plant species have natural cytotype variation, we also hoped … hundreds of naturally-occurring genotypes (in this case, a plant’s complete genetic makeup) and 10 common gardens. We …

… methods for processing, sequencing and analysis. “Using a technique called metagenome binning, we were able to …

… 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 …

… soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome sequence in …

… of the base cytosine at the 5th position on its carbon ring, or 5mC. In many organisms, 5mC is an important … 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 …

… The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples collected from acidic … added. The Marsarchaeota furnish greater definition of the roots of the tree of life on Earth, and their broad …