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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 …

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 …

…   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days … 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 conference, when in-person …

… not enough time and money. I mean, we have a huge marine fungal project in collaboration with Bill Fenical at Scripps. So we’re looking at biosynthesis of marine fungal metabolites. We’re also looking– now we’re started a … And so we also sequence a lot of fungi, and we sequence plants. And so we started thinking about if we had a …

Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to this, he served … for Science where he studied the molecular basis of a plant host’s susceptibility to pathogens. Dr. Vogel’s current research is focused on …