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Kerrie Barry and Jeremy Schmutz worked with a community of switchgrass researchers to conduct a large-scale field … to uncover the genetic basis of local adaptation in switchgrass. Reported in the Proceedings of the National … of Sciences, the team established community gardens of switchgrass plants in 10 different field sites on a …

… for uncultivated phages.  Current Opinion in Virology .  49 , 117-126 Berg, M. and Roux, S. (2021) Extreme dimensions … can tailed phages be?  Nature Reviews Microbiology.   19 , 407 Berg, M. et al. (2021) Host population diversity as a … standing virus-host interactions. ISME J.   15 , 1569–1584 Roux, S. et al. (2019) Cryptic inoviruses revealed as …

… announcing a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome , using samples from common gardens … network of common gardens and are exploring improvements to switchgrass through more targeted genome editing techniques. …

… research team that combined field data with a reference switchgrass genome to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology. The information could be useful toward …

… genomes are critical to serve as phylogenetic anchors for metagenomes studies.  While uncovering the metabolic potential … virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics.” Nature 578(7795): 432-436 (2020). Seshadri R., Leahy S. C., Attwood G. T., Teh …

… mats are wildly prevalent, containing an estimated 40 to 80 percent of all the microbial cells on Earth. As … a more systematic picture through single-cell and metagenomic sequencing. A team co-led by Mária Džunková, … the virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then allowed the team to ask, for the …

… these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these … such as terrestrial soil, having additional isolates and metagenomic datasets will strengthen future virus-host … of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is …

… of stable, synthetic microbial communities to take advantage of their joint metabolisms. Because, together, microbes …