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… and over that when we move into new chemical ecologies, new ecosystems, we find new chemistry. It worked in the marine ecosystems and marine actinomycetes and cyanobacteria. And … So they are full of terrestrial microbes. So they’re open ecosystems. They’re not sealed off and closed. But there’s …

… For the past 13 years, Mr. Schmutz has directed the JGI Plant Program, focusing on the organization of community driven science for JGI Plant Flagship Genomes and DOE relevant cellulosic … In addition to continuing to develop strategies for plant genome sequencing, he manages the de novo plant …

… in order to challenge or kill off competition, right? And plants do the same sorts of things. And then, bacteria often live in symbiosis with plants and might actually be producing molecules that are helpful to the plants. And so, understanding those broader environmental …

… developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather … environments, occupying every continent except Antarctica. Researchers estimate a quarter of the world’s … genetic basis of functional traits in sphagnum growth and decomposition is critical to predicting the ecosystem …

… To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha … led a team that  recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project …

… mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and illuminates the significant role sex plays in how … majority of the ground cover in peatlands. These boggy ecosystems are acidic and have very little oxygen, which is … hollows below. These preferences affect their growth rates, decomposition, and carbon sequestration. Researchers wanted …

… our eukaryotic genomes, all our eukaryotic genomes. Fungal plant, algal genomes, a lot of effort goes into generating … a focus within BER anymore. We really focus on terrestrial ecosystems, but we work in coastal environments, brackish … for our eukaryotic genomes, the fungal, algal, and plant programs. And JGI staff and HudsonAlpha staff are a …