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Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … resilient crop varieties able to grow in marginal lands and with minimal resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In … heavily reliant on the energy and nutrient flows that the microbes in these bodies of water help regulate. However, the microbes also interact with compounds like fertilizers and microplastics that might …

… mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based methods in combination with advanced computational analysis.   Overview of … variety of experimental samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as different types …

… and math (STEM) fields. This summer, they worked with Zhong Wang’s and Tanja Woyke’s groups, respectively. … Internship (SULI) Program students. Sharon Cao worked with Zhong Wang while Karen Tolentino worked with Brachypodium researcher John Vogel. Other students …

… as impact multipliers . The JGI has a long-term partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology for our Plant Program, and is further leveraging the services of the … Genomics Institute for DNA and RNA extractions to support plant and other efforts. The JGI works closely with DOE …

… genomes and directly link functional information with individual cells. Research Team    … The JGI uniquely … sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated microbes. We also apply labeling strategies that allow us to select specific uncultivated microbes for sequencing based on their level of metabolic …

… species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 … In the ocean’s North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes tend to stay localized at different depths. But … depths and relying on different ways of living. The Impact Microbes help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, …

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

… 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 … need. Karolina is working to better understand what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying yuccas, a …

… 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, … a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with specific adaptation mechanisms they had identified. For …