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… scientist Hiroshi Otani. Both are members of the JGI’s Secondary Metabolite Science Program, which Mouncey leads. …

Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. They also took part in many enriching … Alabama A&M University this fall for my master’s in plant soil science and my career focus is plant breeding. …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum … of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, …

… chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and …

… underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire ecosystems. Hear from researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Emily …

JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River … in how general environmental stressors, um, alter microbial biomass and then what the consequences are for the … how the molecules in tiny microbes can impact whole ecosystems. Part of the reason he’s asking this question is …

The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are … genome references are now available for male and female plants of fire moss. Most notably, the work revealed that …

Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering their growth program, and on how plants coordinate their gene expression with light and …

… to support a forest, and species vary across Earth’s ecosystems.  Recently, in work  published in  New Phytologist , … common to forests around the world, as well as meadows and pastures: saprotrophs disassemble debris and dead organisms … mycorrhizal symbionts shuttle water and nutrients to trees; plant pathogens colonize living plants to feed on them.  …