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… compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a … (SMC) has launched as an interactive public database for the research community. With more than 13 million BGCs … BGC sequences. Expansion of the SMC to include fungal, plant, viral, and metagenome data is currently underway. …

… genetics that started with his education and carried forward into his roles as a senior research scientist at … of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for vitamins, insecticides, fungicides, platform chemicals, cosmetics and new crop traits. Dr. Mouncey …

… tells us how sorghum’s historical — and literal — roots could play a big role in our energy future. …

… unique makeup of microbe players and the functions they perform, artificially replicating a whole community is … each individual microbial species within a community. Therefore, the process hinges on referencing to existing genome … were typically discarded from any analysis as useless information. These represent the ‘unknown unknowns’ because …

… Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation … cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials … A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux …

… Understanding the genetic underpinnings responsible for these traits takes us closer to harnessing algae for bioenergy and the greater bioeconomy. By bringing … analysis of fungal genomes, and Phytozome for comparing plant genomes. Kuo and Grigoriev encourage scientists to …

… 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 … PI on this project. “I view the program as an excellent platform to build collaborative research initiatives.” Yasuo …

… within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their rumen are highly capable of breaking … podcast minisode. To date it is the single largest effort to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome …

… improved genome assembly to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.   The Science Researchers report a new … are 900 species of eucalyptus. The trees are fast-growing plantation crops that supply wood and fiber for various … in South Africa. The South African team collected the plant tissues. DNA and RNA sequencing were conducted by the …

… estimated 2–6 million species — dwarfing the diversity of plants. To put this evolutionary timescale in perspective, the genus Aspergillus has been evolving for 82 million years, making it nearly 30 times older than … genomic analysis due to their compact genomes. While plant and animal genomes can sprawl across billions of DNA …