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… Blow, and their team have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied … Ralstonia with enzymes that make phosphate bioavailable for plants. When these engineered bacteria were used with the model plant  Arabidopsis,  the plants grew better than when they …

… – 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 …

… less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir …

… gene functions that may be relevant to both algae and land plants.  Within the biogeochemistry group, one of the four … allow them to better understand the impacts of drought on plant metabolism and particularly, what happens in the rhizosphere where plants, microbes and soil interact below the ground, …

… Nikos Kyrpides , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense collection of publicly …

… of the wider genomics community. Jan. 13 workshop: BER Plant Genomic Science In this workshop, we will present … genomic sequence information to BER funded activities of plant systems. We will describe how to apply for a project … and how you can use the KBase system to accelerate your plant genomics research. …

… What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your … biology and the economic terrain to help make the plant a viable alternative to fossil fuels. …

… datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then looked into many more …

… evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, … them down.  Lignin is a structural component for the plant, like the brick-and-mortar of a building or the human …

… and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and … for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs) that allow them … the wide array of simple and complex components present in plant biomass. This is of interest for bioenergy researchers …