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… the frontiers of environmental and energy genomics.  For more information about the science depicted, click here . …

… 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. …

… a 2012 Community Science Program proposal. Joseph Spatafora of Oregon State University led the effort to sequence … 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 …

… to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently … evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that feed … (form symbiotic relationships outside of the root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 …

… and AI-driven analyses that convert biological information into actionable insights and solutions. … and Materials (CMM): Genomic studies of microbial and plant metabolism reveal biological routes to recover, reuse, … Enhancing agriculture: JGI users explore beneficial plant–microbe interactions and nutrient cycling to enhance …

… 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, … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a …

… . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments … a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic and hot spring  … bacteria lack complete biochemical pathways to break down plant material on their own, they likely cooperate with …

… 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 …

… cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or … acetoclastic. All three pathways require the gene cluster for methane production known as Mcr. Until recently, the Mcr … of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers at Stanford University, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and the U.S. …

… diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (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 …

… 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 …