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… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported …

Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect …

… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … genomics studies, offering insight into genes critical for roles including plant growth and cell wall development.  M. … leucine-rich repeats (NLRs) —stood out for their roles. Peroxidases are enzymes known to help a plant to …

… help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass … evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by … they all process loads of tough plants. Thanks to gut microbes — namely, anaerobic fungi — these animals are able …

What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing … But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… come from livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. There is another climate-minded … reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their rumen are highly capable of breaking … to understand. A better understanding of rumen and the microbes that live there can drive solutions into stemming …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … and PPRD could help with understanding gene functional roles, but the experimental inconsistency makes … plants and add additional experimentally derived biological roles to genes. Sarah:  How many plants did you all look at? …

The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of … global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon …

… along with 100 of his colleagues in the comparative plant genomics community. The project’s aim is to generate … representing all major evolutionary lineages in the land plant tree of life.   As of the start of 2022, there were … material in hand,” said Jeremy Schmutz, lead of the JGI’s Plant Program, including genomes that are both large and …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex …

… of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver … stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms rearrange their cells …