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… specialized capabilities that allow the organisms to adapt to and control their environment. Many secondary metabolites are produced by groups of genes known as biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs.) As … time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence data from over 1.3 million publicly available …

… molecules that combat infections. When the  PtrbHLH011 gene was knocked out in poplar, those plants produced double … of immunity-boosting flavonoids. Conversely, when the gene was overexpressed, those plants had stunted growth, … while a Molecular Foundry researcher provided insights into how the regulatory mechanism evolved.  BNL scientists …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in … opportunity to study how DGRs work and develop more of them into new biological tools. … support from the EMERGE Institute (NSF #2022070). Sequencing of the Stordalen Mire samples used herein was …