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… from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported …

What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your … biology and the economic terrain to help make the plant a viable alternative to fossil fuels. …

… nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant pathogens known to infect most major food crops and … clusters showed a >95 % accuracy in correctly predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S …

… ‘Dark Matter’ Microbial communities living everywhere from soils and stomachs to the deep sea are capable of doing a … families preferred a specific environment — whether that be soil, animal hosts, marine ecosystems, etc.  “So, they must … now can use further. Let’s say somebody is working on soil environments or the human body — they may take some of …

Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily absorbable solution of sugars. But pollen contains plant cell walls, which have complex, branching chains of …

… compounds may also be involved in how the fungi metabolize plant biomass, which could inform how scientists can more easily convert plants into carbon-neutral biofuels . What’s more, many … to understand the outsized role the fungi play in digesting plant material in herbivore guts. A deeper dive into the …

Grimwood heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon … At HudsonAlpha, she has continued to contribute across JGI plant genomes. She has appeared on the annual Highly Cited … Setaria viridis ). The team of researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center), HudsonAlpha and the …

… and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, from alpine soils to tropical glaciers.  Proposals are accepted …

… a regulator of lipid metabolism in microalgae .  Nature Plants 1: 15107 Lupiáñez DG, Kraft K, Heinrich V, Krawitz P, … De novo transcriptome assembly of drought tolerant CAM plants, Agave deserti and Agave tequilana. BMC Genomics  14, …