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… of research related to DOE’s missions in bioenergy, carbon cycling and biogeochemistry. In complement to … drive innovations that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, …
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… decomposition, CO2 fixation, redox reactions, and plant metabolite biosynthesis, synthesizing and … of fungi and community annotation. … Phytozome is the JGI's Plant Comparative Genomics portal. Families of related genes …
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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 …
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… with special skills to break down pollutants and recycle carbon. They were part of an ancient lineage of bacteria to … wildly from spring to spring. These biodiversity hotspots harbor specialized microbial communities living in extreme … a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic and hot spring …
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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 …
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… (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 … a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon fixation process known as the C4 pathway, which …
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… to do an independent study on ethnobotany of some of the plants that people were using for medicines in this very … and my masters, but I ended up starting a master’s in plant ecology. And that masters helped me to figure out that I didn’t really want to study plant ecology– that there wasn’t enough application there. …
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… 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 … also revealed that these two B. hybridum types don’t interbreed. “Preliminary artificial crossing experiments between …
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… we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I … KAROLINA: We all know plants take up water through their roots. But for them to be able to pull that water through … are open, it’s the same pore in the leaf through which carbon dioxide enters the leaf for photosynthesis. ALISON: …
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