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… activated to sustain life’s processes.  Traditionally, mapping this intricate network of regulatory “switches” in … Behind the Breakthroughs: Advancing gene regulation mapping Previous methods to identify where transcription … binding maps with single-cell RNA profiles, researchers can pinpoint which transcription factors regulate specific genes …

… close those stomata to prevent water loss, but that also prevents CO2 from coming into the leaf and it basically … plants.  ALISON:  That’s what might happen for a stressed typical plant, one that does what’s called C3 metabolism, … Agave family with fleshy, sword-like leaves, often with spikes along their edges. KAROLINA : My work with the JGI …

… and nitrogen cycling and forest floor ecosystem processes. Pinpointing the processes happening on and in forest soil … So, to be able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA … allowed the team to have a much more comprehensive picture of microbial genes in the soil and to which type of …

… for every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Dr. Tan details the results of the team’s … Plant polysaccharides such as starch and cellulose were rapidly degraded by a set of significantly upregulated … from the exogenous nutrient supply, resulting in a rapid increase of the organic carbon content in the soil, …

… a single microorganism within a lab setting.  Roland Hatzenpichler is an associate professor at Montana University and … you have to be very agnostic and very careful,” Hatzenpichler explained. “Not only do you not know in which … just be switched off.” Yet, after extensive study, Hatzenpicher and his team were able to definitively prove two …

… DNA sequence diversity, gene repertoire, and the phenotypic diversity across this plant in one accessible resource,” … gene controls whether a plant keeps its seeds attached when picked. Wild plants will ‘shatter’ their seeds off a stem to … University of California Berkeley, Salk institute, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Texas A&M …

… percent of what is grown is known as Upland cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum ), while the remaining 5 percent is called American Pima ( G. barbadense .) These are two of the five major … at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is so important to crops. …