Like all higher organisms, plants have evolved in the context of a microbial world, shaping
both their evolution and their contemporary ecology. Interactions between plant roots and soil …

N6-methyldeoxyadenine (6mA) is a noncanonical DNA base modification present at low levels
in plant and animal genomes 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , but its prevalence and association with genome …

Diet is a critical determinant of variation in gut microbial structure and function, outweighing
even host genetics 1 , 2 – 3 . Numerous microbiome studies have compared diets with …

To the Editor—The importance of providing open and transparent solutions to use, share,
inspect and reproduce mass spectrometry (MS) data analysis is becoming more apparent. To …

It is generally believed that exchange of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs)
among closely related bacteria is an important driver of BGC evolution and …

Alga-derived lipids represent an attractive potential source of biofuels. However, lipid
accumulation in algae is a stress response tightly coupled to growth arrest, thereby imposing a …

Light and nutrients are critical regulators of photosynthesis and metabolism in plants and
algae. Many algae have the metabolic flexibility to grow photoautotrophically, heterotrophically, …

Microbes are responsible for cycling carbon (C) through soils, and predicted changes in soil
C stocks under climate change are highly sensitive to shifts in the mechanisms assumed to …

Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) enables researchers to directly probe endogenous
molecules directly within the architecture of the biological matrix. Unfortunately, efficient access, …

Interactions between Sphagnum (peat moss) and cyanobacteria play critical roles in terrestrial
carbon and nitrogen cycling processes. Knowledge of the metabolites exchanged, the …