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… have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, …

… the brown rot Serpula lacrymans towards breaking down plant mass for conversion to sustainable, alternative …

… than 500 species of fungi. The Impact Interactions between plants and fungi run the gamut from mutually beneficial to … that can move to another location in the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf … rich in transposons, which may help the pathogens evade a plant’s defenses. Understanding the role of transposons and …

… work included investigating sphagnum moss and the role the plant’s sex plays in its resiliency, as well as a Nature Plants study identifying colonization patterns in eelgrass . … fungi’s ability to break down lignin , the hardiest of plant components and a key barrier when breaking down …

… experiment outlines a roadmap that is transferable to other systems, expanding the technologies available for other JGI …

… and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. … across species. Specifically, many species had very similar plant cell wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs), including … of Energy award 0000238431 to D.H., the GENOBIOREF (BIO2017-86559-R) project of the Spanish Ministry of Science and …

… cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials …

… distribution of these viruses in the various ecosystems, their diversity, their predicted metabolic features … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly … and the Georgia Institute of Technology focused on microbial communities from freshwater ecosystems, including, …

… when these records will be made available again within NCBI systems. In addition, the JGI issued a Request for … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

… of desert grasslands to the metabolic savviness of microbial ecosystems at the forest floor and along ocean shores. Their …

… miscanthus often appear in discussions of rapidly growing plants whose biomass can be renewably converted into energy … Berkeley and the HudsonAlpha Center for Biotechnology. Most plants are diploids with two copies of each chromosome, one inherited from each parent. Some plants, known as polyploids, have more than two copies of …