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… mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based methods in combination with advanced computational analysis.   Overview of … variety of experimental samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as different types …

… to energy independence in the U.S. Not only does it pair with maize, the dominant source of bioethanol, in crop … explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has desirable properties as … Leaves grow discolored and rust pustules develop as the pathogen feeds on its soybean host, which is maintained …

… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … conifer needle microbiomes. The survey showed what these microbes are equipped to do on the leaf surface. More … land and the atmosphere. Microbes living there can interact with chemical defenses of plants and influence nutrient …

… we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG … need. Karolina is working to better understand what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying yuccas, a …

… (BNL) led a team that  identified a protein , PtrbHLH011, within poplar involved in plant growth, lignin production, and disease resistance.  … bioenergy feedstock crops. The trees can be bred to be more resistant to environmental stresses such as nutrient-poor …

… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, … a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with specific adaptation mechanisms they had identified. For …