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… along with 100 of his colleagues in the comparative plant genomics community. The project’s aim is to generate … representing all major evolutionary lineages in the land plant tree of life.   As of the start of 2022, there were … material in hand,” said Jeremy Schmutz, lead of the JGI’s Plant Program, including genomes that are both large and …

… The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of … global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon …

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

… To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … and PPRD could help with understanding gene functional roles, but the experimental inconsistency makes … plants and add additional experimentally derived biological roles to genes. Sarah:  How many plants did you all look at? …

… Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex …

… of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver … stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms rearrange their cells …

… communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with … they’re eating was different, and what they’re eating are microbes.   And so that led him to come to me with the question, well, how are the microbes being affected by the metals? When metals are …

… Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant … is not limited to  Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to … You don’t have tunnel vision anymore, only seeing the microbes you can grow in the lab — suddenly you see …

… 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, … carbon. Understanding the metabolisms that SAR324 and other microbes use could inform scientists’ understanding of …