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… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address global challenges by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to … for energy, agriculture and the environment. At its core, the program investigates photosynthesis — the process …

… Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial … contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by … Plant microbiomes hold the amazing ability to influence …

… of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With advanced mass … the program supports foundational research related to soil nutrient cycling and health, terrestrial biogeochemical processes, development of high performance plants and microbes, and understanding microbiome …

… The Plant Program Advisory Committee is chartered to offer … on the effective management and strategic objectives of the plant program. The committee serves as the program's key …

… curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and … biochemistry, and organic chemistry, and all of these hardcore principles of Western medicine. But in the Amazon, I … and culture-disconnected. Like we’ll take some soil samples and sequence all the bugs out of that or …

… of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated with microeukaryotes, enhances our understanding … addressing key environmental challenges, such as improving soil health, carbon sequestration and bioeconomy … an emphasis on bacteria and archaea, and including those associated with microeukaryotes. The program also studies …

… Adaptive strategies in a cosmopolitan and abundant soil bacterium: genetic microdiversity or core metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during simulated range shifts of plant-fungal symbionts … the gene regulatory networks governing terpenoid-mediated plant environment interactions to enable advanced bioenergy …

… hard to sequence and assemble samples, such as those from soil and plants, our group researches the use and implementation of …

… for ecosystem functioning — particularly in their roles associated with plants (mycorrhizae, endophytes, growth promoters, or … workflows for microbial eukaryotes, build fungal and algal pangenomes, and integrate multi-omics tools to enhance … Genomic Encyclopedia of Fungi focuses on aspects of plant feedstock health, biorefinery mechanisms and fungal …

… and Materials (CMM): Genomic studies of microbial and plant metabolism reveal biological routes to recover, reuse, … Enhancing agriculture: JGI users explore beneficial plant–microbe interactions and nutrient cycling to enhance crop resilience, improve soil health, and make more efficient use of marginal lands …

… samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as different types of environments (e.g. soil, lake).  A wide range of metabolites are identified …