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… gene families involved in adaptations seen in later plant lineages. The team found that some of the adaptation … suggesting they are evolutionarily conserved across plant lineages. They hypothesized that certain gene families — … no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This project received funding from the European Research Council under the European …
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… we get to present our conversation with Marnix Medema , from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Marnix is … IMG kind of hooks into IMG’s data. IMG being Integrated Microbial Genomics at JGI, a large data set of bacterial … effect is gone. You can transplant the effect by taking the microbial fraction out of one soil, transplanting it into …
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Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that … fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other plant-associated fungi. Their analysis identified … determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can …
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… issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained … provided by the other study co-authors, and reconstructed from these 10 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) … five were from undersampled or previously undescribed lineages, and the other five only distantly related to known …
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Scientists have discovered flagella in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that … to spring. These biodiversity hotspots harbor specialized microbial communities living in extreme conditions. The …
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… is a bacterial sacred metabolite, and ergot alkaloids come from fungi, and Taxol from plants. Plants, fungi, bacteria, archaea, they all have … in it. All right, this is probably one of the most famous photographs in microbiology. ALISON: Oh my gosh DAN: Do …
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… we have our conversation with Professor Alison Narayan, from the University of Michigan. I hope she’ll accept this … to introduce our guest today, professor Alison Narayan from the University of Michigan. Dr. Narayan is currently … time. DAN UDWARY: Yeah? ALISON NARAYAN: And the planet was hotter millions and billions of years ago. DAN UDWARY: Like, …
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… evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced … (form symbiotic relationships outside of the root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal … , the work was led by a consortium of researchers from the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and …
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