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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 … of how plants have naturally adapted to varied climate and soil conditions around the globe to identify genes to …

… work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and now COVID. We also wanted to talk to her because … and culture-disconnected. Like we’ll take some soil samples and sequence all the bugs out of that or … establishing new field sites. And it’s also important to set expectations because I’ve worked on hundreds of plants …

… and I’m so happy we got the chance to talk and that now I can bring it to you. So enjoy, episode 11 of Natural … we, for example, are really interested in metagenomes and microbiomes and figuring out which gene clusters are … the action of the microbiome because if you sterilize the soil, the protective effect is gone. You can transplant the …

… Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic … contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by … and computational genomics to better understand the plant-associated terrestrial world. Research Team    …

… 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 …

… Because we always need new antibiotics. We need new cancer agents. We need treatments for humans. And it just so … Nature Biotechnology, titled ‘A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes’ . (Citation: Nayfach S et al. A Genomic Catalog … disparate environments. There’s some marine. There’s some soil samples. There’s human gut samples. There’s lots and …

… notable. We are still in – not an early stage. I think we can identify most secondary metabolism pathways now, but … the sponges or other things. And we know lots more about microbiomes and symbionts that live with other organisms, … products because they’re easy to find. They grow in the soil. These are the same guys that produce geosmin. And so …

… trying to sequence is, you have to have a sequencer that can read longer than the repeat, otherwise, you have no idea … for antibiotics and the microbes that make them is in the soil. There’s … uh… there’s an issue there though, in that … new. And, likely, that would be outside of the lab setting as well. So it’s on our minds, but whether or not …

… about what they need to advance their science, and what JGI can do to help that. So here we are. This is the first … is a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of … what? 15th, 16th century.  ALISON: Yeah, I lived in Massachusetts for a while. DAN: There you go. So you’ve heard about …

… interactions, over ecological and evolutionary time scales.The Metagenome Program combines large-scale, … of biogeochemically-relevant pathways, enabling modeling of microbiomes based on functional traits. These advancements … Integrating metatranscriptomes and metagenomes can, for instance, deepens our understanding of microbial …

… from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. This is the last of the podcasts we recorded in my … know, for example, what are all the compounds in a sample set, and how are they distributed? And that’s been a sort of … transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to …

… field has been dominated for … well, as long as I can remember, by bacterial research.  So it was great to … they deserve. They are so exciting. I get frustrated. Like microbiomes  – you know how that’s a big deal now. You go to … [class] that was mostly bacteria, that’s where your mindset is. Is that what you’re saying, right now? So if you …