BERAC Meeting Teleconference Meeting April 3, 2008
BERAC Meeting Teleconference Meeting
April 3, 2008
Presentations
DOE Perspective, Raymond L. Orbach, Under Secretary for Science
Highlights
Breathing New Life into an Old Question: What Plants’ Emissions Tell Us about their Cell Walls
Detecting gaseous methanol and acetic acid released from plants sheds light on plant cell wall composition changes throughout leaf development.
Soil Viruses: A Rich Reservoir of Diversity
Soils contain a large diversity of unknown RNA viruses that infect fungi and possibly plants and animals.
