Poplar cuttings inoculated with M. elongata strain PM193 (far right) grow larger in 30 percent forest soil / 70 percent sand than without PM193 (middle). On the left are controls grown in sterile sand. (Chih-Ming Hsu)

August 20, 2019

Fungus Fuels Tree Growth

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel… [Read More]

The lipid producing yeast, Yarrowia lipolytica, examined with light microscopy (left) and fluorescence microscopy (right), after being stained with Nile Red to visualize the lipid droplets inside (shown here in white). (Courtesy of Hal Alper)

July 15, 2019

Better Genome Editing for Bioenergy

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial… [Read More]

FISH of Nha-C enrichment with Hrr. lacusprofundi ACAM34-hmgA. Fluorescence micrograph shows individual Nha-C cells amongst Hrr. lacusprofundi cells. Nha-C cells labelled with a Cy5 (red fluorescence) conjugated probe; Hrr. lacusprofundi cells labelled with a Cy3 (yellow fluorescence, recolored to green to improve contrast) probe; all nucleic-acid containing cells stained with DAPI (blue fluorescence). Composite image of all three filters. Scale bars represent 2 µm. (Josh Hamm, UNSW)

July 10, 2019

Cultivating Symbiotic Antarctic Microbes

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple… [Read More]

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