Backfill related_ingredients in 3 more biocontrol/agri SynCom files (round 4) - #121
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…round 4) Round 4 of the deferred backfill. Four more OAK-verified metabolites across three files; all sourced verbatim from already-cited references. - LBNL_Brachypodium_Drought_SynCom15 → trehalose (CHEBI:27082), glycine betaine (CHEBI:17750). Source: PMID:40862137 — SynCom member genomes encode osmoprotectant biosynthesis driving Brachypodium drought resilience. - PSY_Transgenic_Rice_Rhizosphere_Methane_Community → methane (CHEBI:16183). Source: PMID:41582156 — PSY-overexpressing transgenic rice reduces cumulative CH4 emissions by 38% (PSY1) and 58% (PSY2) via altered rhizosphere hydrogen-cycling/methanogenesis activity ratios. - Populus_Salt_Tolerant_SynComs → sodium chloride (CHEBI:26710). Source: PMID:40904019 — Populus euphratica halophyte-derived SynComs designed to confer NaCl tolerance on hybrid poplar. Adoption: 108 → 111 of 265 (+3 files; +4 metabolites). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sanctioned review pass (replacing Copilot). Round 4 backfill of related_ingredients across 3 SynCom files. I verified all 4 CHEBI id/label pairs against the local OAK CHEBI sqlite (CHEBI:27082 trehalose, CHEBI:17750 glycine betaine, CHEBI:16183 methane, CHEBI:26710 sodium chloride — all canonical), confirmed every snippet is verbatim in the cached abstract for its PMID, checked author/year attributions (Shi et al. 2026 ✓, Li et al. 2025 ✓), and ran just validate clean on all three files. Substantively this is clean; only two minor evidence-classification NITs (inline).
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LBNL_Brachypodium_Drought_SynCom15.yaml:67(and :81) — evidence_source classification, see inline.Populus_Salt_Tolerant_SynComs.yaml:70— evidence_source classification + indirect snippet→compound link, see inline.
Findings not anchorable to diff lines
None. All findings anchor to RIGHT-side diff lines.
| evidence: | ||
| - reference: PMID:40862137 | ||
| supports: SUPPORT | ||
| evidence_source: IN_VITRO |
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NIT: evidence_source: IN_VITRO, but the cited snippet describes genomic detection of biosynthesis genes ("Genomic analysis ... reveal encoded ... genes for the synthesis of osmoprotectants"). Gene-presence from genome analysis maps more naturally to COMPUTATIONAL. The abstract's in-vitro validation ("some predicted traits were validated by laboratory phenotypic assays") is a separate, uncited passage. Same applies to the glycine-betaine claim at line 81. Consider COMPUTATIONAL.
| evidence: | ||
| - reference: PMID:40904019 | ||
| supports: SUPPORT | ||
| evidence_source: IN_VIVO |
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NIT: evidence_source: IN_VIVO, but the cited snippet describes in-vitro strain isolation/cultivation ("512 strains were isolated ... through high-throughput cultivation"), not an in-vivo plant assay — IN_VITRO or OTHER fits the cited text better. Also note the snippet does not literally name NaCl/sodium chloride; the compound is inferred from "high-salt rhizosphere" (reasonable for halophyte salt-stress, and made explicit in the relevance/explanation), but the snippet→compound link is indirect.
LBNL_Brachypodium_Drought_SynCom15: the trehalose and glycine-betaine
osmoprotectant claims cite genomic analysis ('genes for the synthesis of
osmoprotectants'), an in-silico/genomic finding, not a wet-lab result;
IN_VITRO -> COMPUTATIONAL.
Populus_Salt_Tolerant_SynComs: the sodium-chloride snippet describes
high-throughput cultivation/isolation of strains (laboratory in-vitro work),
not an in-vivo field/host result; IN_VIVO -> IN_VITRO.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Summary
Round 4 of the deferred ~38 thin biocontrol/agri backfill (continues #118-#120). Four OAK-verified metabolites across three files.
Adoption: 108 → 111 of 265 (+3 files; +4 metabolites).
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