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… root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its … United States, making it an energy feedstock of particular interest to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). By better … publishing  the results in  Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions . The results were striking. Adding PM193 …

… learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an international team led by graduate student Fantin Mesny in … . They looked for genes known to be involved in fungal-host interactions and identified 84 gene families that were common in fungi that live within plants (endophytes). These include genes that degrade …

… base of marine food webs are microscopic photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for … temperature of about 58° Fahrenheit (14° Celsius) — a cool intermediate to the ocean’s extremes of about 28° and 97° … co-lead author of the study with Kara Martin. “But these ecosystems are literally melting away.” Driven by climate …