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… relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US … we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I … conditions could help us to one day develop plants that are more drought-tolerant. These kinds of innovations are …

… existed in close algal relatives  to terrestrial plants showcases how early plants built upon an ancient genetic … the evolutionary lineage leading to land plants is more complex than previously thought.  The researchers found … that  Zygnematophyceae share key genes with land plants for making and modifying cell walls, a feature crucial for …

… with the JGI dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha … eukaryotic organisms from simple yeasts to large vertebrate genomes.  For the past 13 years, Mr. Schmutz has directed the JGI Plant Program, focusing on the organization of community …

… of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of … etc., switchgrass is polyploid. This means it contains more than two copies of the genome , which can have … across hundreds of naturally-occurring genotypes (in this case, a plant’s complete genetic makeup) and 10 common …

… Every approved proposal starts with a User Agreement — before any work can begin, including the submission of samples for sequencing, or the submission of sequencing data for synthesis. This agreement, required by the DOE for all … of the JGI User Agreement , JGI User Agreement for Federal Agencies , DNA Synthesis Appendix  and DNA …

… The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon dioxide and water into … was the spark that started it all,” Blaby-Haas said. A more apt name for a Jane Doe After screening hundreds of …

… at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced in every corn variety … revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins and related precursors into a bonanza of … of chemicals called terpenes. Terpenes are important in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions, and …

… While an ever-increasing number of phage and virus genomes have been assembled and reported from metagenomes, our understanding of the impacts of these viruses … metagenomics and metatranscriptomics provide invaluable information on virus diversity and activity in microbial …

… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a … could help researchers better understand related genes in more complex plants that could be applied toward …

… fresh organic carbon which can serve as a food source for other microbes into the environment. Summary In J. R. R. … of countering multiple attempts at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). To learn more about how microbial populations respond to virus …