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… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms … The video complements a recently published paper with first author Amundson in the journal Microbiome . The …

… developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather … These resources would provide the research community with the ability to address questions such as sphagnum’s … cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon …

… The Science The  Metagenome Stability Diagram — a tool within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes … more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein … measure the collection of the microbiome’s genetic makeup. Microbes have specific tetranucleotide frequencies, and an …

… believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading … Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants , was able to assess absolute time estimates for … that figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 years — with many key colonization events in the Atlantic ocean …

… of chemicals called terpenes. Terpenes are important in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions, and … also have industrial applications, including bioenergy. All plants make terpenoids, which carry out a diverse array of … Plants that the zealexin pathway has an “hourglass” shape with diverse precursors in, and many different products out, …

… patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and … C. californicus in particular, as a model system for venom-microbe interactions. Cone snail venom has a number of applications, including pain relief. The microbes in cone snails may be involved in venom activity, …

… ( Panicum virgatum ) is a candidate bioenergy feedstock with a complex genome with multiple copies of its … research programs for developing methods for converting plant biomass into sustainable fuels for cars and jets. By … to find relationships between sequence variation and plant stress responses. For example, offspring of a cross …

… found inside mitochondria, the energy-producing structures within cells. This is the largest dataset of its kind ever … than 6,000 mitochondrial sequences previously unrecognized within existing public databases and recovered more than … have resisted large-scale automated annotation due to features like self-splicing introns and multiple genetic …

… T., & Bowen, B. (2015). Analysis of metabolomics datasets with high-performance computing and metabolite atlases. … 59(1), 33–42. Bowen, B., & Northen, T. (2010). Dealing with the unknown: metabolomics and metabolite atlases. … Chao, Y., Reindl, W., Lee, D., & others (2011). Conserved features of cancer cells define their sensitivity to …

… this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to … of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to practice and develop presentation … The JGI-UC Merced internship program was founded in 2014 with the goal of inspiring students to embark on a career in …

… – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on … and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ Editor’s Note: Merchant is also a faculty …

… Streamlined genome with precise gene targeting transforms oil-producing alga … targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid of two … genome-scale engineering technologies to control plants and microbes for bioproducts and biomaterial manufacturing.  …