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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 …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … also known as “polyploidy,” is common among flowering plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many genes after …

… advanced sequencing technologies to decode the genomes of microbes in their natural environments. This work … and many other applications. By understanding how microbes contribute to ecosystem functions, the Program … community assembly and microbial interactions, including microbe-microbe and virus-microbe interactions, over …

… transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to …

… to soil carbon storage during simulated range shifts of plant-fungal symbionts … Elucidation of the gene regulatory networks governing terpenoid-mediated plant environment interactions to enable advanced bioenergy …

Lab). Using a single-cell screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they … bacterium typically found in low abundances. The Impact Microbes are known to be key contributors to the planet’s … program (LDRD) entitled ‘Tackling microbial-mediated plant carbon decomposition using “function-driven” genomics’. …

… 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 cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In … heavily reliant on the energy and nutrient flows that the microbes in these bodies of water help regulate. However, the microbes also interact with compounds like fertilizers and …

… 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 …

… functioning — particularly in their roles associated with plants (mycorrhizae, endophytes, growth promoters, or pathogens) and as the most efficient degraders of plant biomass. These abilities are crucial for sustainable plant biomass production as well as converting biomass into …

When warm waters stress corals, it might be their microbes, including their photosynthetic partner, that help …