Suzanne M. Kosina

TL;DR: Development of chassis-independent recombinase-assisted genome engineering (CRAGE) enables the integration of plasmids encoding biosynthetic gene clusters into the chromosomes of diverse bacteria to optimize production of natural products in non-native strains.

TL;DR: Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] seeds accumulate sucrose, raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFO), phytin, and small amounts of galactopinitols and fagopyritols during normal seed maturation.

TL;DR: The reproducibility of plant trait changes in response to three growth environments is investigated, finding plants grown in soil extract were morphologically and metabolically distinct, with root hairs four times longer than with other growth conditions.

TL;DR: The results indicate that a significant portion of a model community’s overall metabolism can be predicted based on the metabolism of the individuals, and the resources that significantly deviate from the prediction highlight potential metabolic pathways affected by species-species interactions, which when further studied can potentially be used to modulate microbial community structure and/or function.

TL;DR: In this paper, the enzyme latch paradigm was disproved by using metabolite evidence that polyphenols are depolymerized, resulting in monomer accumulation, followed by the generation of small phenolic degradation products.