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… – 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 scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences …

… through genomic discovery across diverse organisms and ecosystems. Scientists are engineering next-generation … and developing RNA barcoding systems to optimize microbial bioreactors. This genomic research creates new … approaches to unravel functional capabilities of plants, microbes and microbial communities, and …

… only “true fungi”? A(nswer): Our focus is on fungi, algae, plants, and the microbial world but we also annotated several Phytophthora … and TCDB ( http://tcdb.org/ ) databases, respectively. For secondary metabolism clusters, we have developed in-house … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

… latest article, published January 27, is about engineering plants and their microbiomes for more sustainable … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … three Genome Watch articles. “Given the great expertise in microbial genomics and metagenomics of the …