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… well. One is to do DNA sequencing. So upon sequencing many genomes, now we don’t have to, as in the past, go randomly … product chemistry? BEN:  Yeah. So, I was trained as a plant natural product chemist. When I first started in graduate school, I was working on terpenoids, plant natural products, and what really fascinated me – the …

… for a long time by many, many bacteria – and fungi and plants. And so that’s the power and the promise of, I guess, … we can find more things. Turns out some of the early genomes that were sequenced for, say, Streptomyces – they … transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to …

… 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 …

… the secondary metabolism side of things was looking at genomes and seeing where the really hard things to sequence … As a host, and a little bit of my newer work is focused on plants, but in both cases, you know, these molecules are how … human use. So things that we might be able to use against plant pathogens to use in agriculture and animal husbandry. …

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 …

… the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green … biology and lead to higher yield and improved fiber while reducing input costs. Growers, the textile industry, and … ask to take on these projects due to their difficulty and complexity, but we have been extremely pleased with Jeremy, …

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

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

… but soybean ( Glycine max ) also has the advantage of reducing the need for nitrogen fertilizer. These impressive … explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has desirable properties as … Sainsbury Institute, by annotating not just one but three genomes for P. pachyrhizi , which are available on MycoCosm …

… (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them back to the lab. The weedy grass was … Program , sequences of several hundred green millet plant genomes were generated, though the final analyses focused on …

… help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass … years evolving tactics against potential threats. “Because plants can’t run away, they’ve evolved these really tough … complexes that work like assembly lines for efficiency.  In 2021, her team saw that four strains of anaerobic fungi …