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In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and more. And …

… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, … 35 major evolutionary plant lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. …

… just from as a simple organic chemist, can I make that big, beautiful molecule? And so I’d like to think I’ve … really just learn so much, which then enables you to ask bigger questions and accomplish bigger, lofty goals. JACKIE WINTER: I think that– yeah …

… we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG conference, when in-person meetings were …

… technology in order to enhance the quality of single-cell genomes and directly link functional information with … DNA amplification, and sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated microbes. We also apply labeling … To provide additional functional insights into microbial genomes, the JGI now uses laser microdissection to …

… samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as different types …

… the largest integration of single-cell datasets in plants and provides a foundation for still larger efforts in diverse plant species beyond models,” he said. Cole annotated cell types in the plant root atlas, and noted that the approach he developed …

… peanuts, black-eyed peas, soybeans and chickpeas. While no longer under the umbrella of the JGI, McClean and Schmutz … use Phaseolus as a test model quite frequently for R&D in plant genomics, because it is an inbred dicot,” Schmutz explained, meaning the plant’s reduced genetic diversity makes it easier to …

… of our Community Science Program, characterize organisms (plants and microbes) relevant to the DOE science mission … technologies needed to design, build, and control plants and microbes to produce biofuels, … across the bioeconomy. Gain a genome-level understanding of plant metabolism, physiology, and growth to develop new …