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… This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions … on Intensive Agricultural Lands Changes Nitrogen Cycling Microbial Communities and Reduces N2O Production Potential … of Arizona: “Spatial metabolic profiling in roots reveals plant specific responses to drought at the Biosphere 2 …

… a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the … this may be the first publicly available, river-focused microbial resource that provides information at multiple … to the community level. The Impact Rivers are transport systems, and their health is heavily reliant on the energy …

… Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge … To provide additional functional insights into microbial genomes, the JGI now uses laser microdissection to selectively isolate and sequence microbial aggregates after first imaging with various …

… research programs for developing methods for converting plant biomass into sustainable fuels for cars and jets. By … Rising global temperatures are causing extreme weather events, ranging from prolonged droughts to extended periods … to find relationships between sequence variation and plant stress responses. For example, offspring of a cross …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … multiply. Over time, plants lose many genes after such events, returning their genomes to a diploid state while … the polyploid  B. hybridum formed more than once, and these events took place a million years apart: the individual with …

… fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii … to protect themselves from environmental stresses, ferns’ secondary metabolites and associated genes are great … the C-fern assembly. While they did identify a couple WGD events, these events could not fully account for the size …

… 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 … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

…   Save the Date: March 16–18, 2027 The next JGI Annual Meeting will be held in March 2027 at the Oakland Convention …