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… by the JGI in 2009 and it is considered to be a Flagship Plant. By uncovering and characterizing the mechanisms … under three watering conditions, and then collected root, leaf and rhizosphere (soil surrounding the root) … with the symbiotic relationship between plant roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), known to provide plants …

… important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r … Blow, and their team have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied … and Environmental Microbiology , the researchers engineered root bacteria  Pseudomonas  and Ralstonia with enzymes that …

… research efforts expanded to include basal metazoans and plants. Working with a talented team of scientists and software engineers, Dr. Goodstein currently leads the Plant Comparative Analysis group, and is responsible for … for the JGI's direct collaborators and the wider plant science community. Dr. Goodstein’s group also develops …

Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to drought. …

… in the sequencing and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s … on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity of plants and animals by combining computational genome … to this evolutionary focus, his work on plant genomics is targeted towards the development of improved biofuel …