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… 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, … into gene families involved in adaptations seen in later plant lineages. The team found that some of the adaptation …

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 … Lovell, JT et al. 2018. The genomic landscape of molecular responses to natural drought stress in Panicum hallii . …

The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes … global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon … the genomic basis and ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered …

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 …

… drive innovations that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, …

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 …

… applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced …

… 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 …