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… 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 … KAROLINA:  We all know plants take up water through their roots. But for them to be able to pull that water through …

Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, … et al. The  Selaginella Genome Identifies Genetic Changes Associated with the Evolution of Vascular Plants.  Science, … and lignocellulose degradation encoded in the genome sequence of  Schizophyllum commune . Nat Biotech.  2010; 28: …

Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying anaerobic fungi, as well as a recent discovery that turns scientific …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … also known as “polyploidy,” is common among flowering plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many genes after …

… to soil carbon storage during simulated range shifts of plant-fungal symbionts … Elucidation of the gene regulatory networks governing terpenoid-mediated plant environment interactions to enable advanced bioenergy …

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

… a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic and hot spring  … bacteria lack complete biochemical pathways to break down plant material on their own, they likely cooperate with … that the bacteria have enzymes to synthesize or degrade plant hormones, meaning its land-dwelling counterparts could …