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… could imagine if you have two colonies of bacteria in the soil or something and they’re competing with each other, if … DAN: Almost like you know that there is. AARON PURI: It’s a planted question Dan. Yeah. So overall I think what we’re …

… 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 … with JGI, in which she’s studying a special kind of plant metabolism. This metabolism, called crassulacean acid …

… little water, full sunlight and hot temperatures, sorghum plants can photosynthesize and thrive — some varieties grow … climate has earned it a place on the JGI’s Flagship Plant Genome roster. Sorghum has an important feature in … It performs C4 photosynthesis, which is the fastest way for plants to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and …

… drive innovations that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, …

… evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that feed … validate how mycorrhizal fungi play an integral role in soil carbon storage. Summary There are three types of fungal … break down the lignin but use cellulose. Finally, there are soil saprotrophs, which degrade plant detritus. Despite the …