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Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the …

… do your organic reaction and see if it smells like a pine tree. Like there’s no cookie cutter reactions here, we’re … that’s really popped up at funding agencies and the popular news recently because a lot of soldiers in the Iraq … the lab of Cameron Currie. They work primarily within the “fungus growing ant” system where there is a symbiont, a …

Centers , which seek to accelerate the development of biofuels and bioproducts. The JGI continues to receive its … build, and control plants and microbes to produce biofuels, bioproducts, biomaterials, and, critical minerals and … understanding of plant metabolism, physiology, and growth to develop new bioenergy feedstocks with traits …

… gas mitigation properties of multiple rice plant growth promotion technologies using methanotrophs. … Anuvia … company that recycles carbon emissions to make fuels and chemicals, improving air quality and promoting a … engineer a Clostridium strain for the production of biofuels and bioproducts from low-cost gas feedstock. For more …

MARCY : It’s getting bacteria from there. We work on a fungus garden ant as well as the American honeybee. And so I … looked at ants and their symbiotic arrangement with a fungus and bacteria that protect the fungus. And we talked to Marc Chevrette in, I think, episode …

The program supports the development of next-generation biofuels by studying perennial grasses and fast-growing trees as renewable energy feedstocks. It also tackles … environmental stress and microbial communities affect plant growth and productivity. These insights have the potential …

… from candidate phyla, major branches in the phylogenetic tree without cultivated representatives. The “Great … valuable reference genomes in under-populated areas of the tree of life, as reference genomes are critical to serve as … of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life.” Nat Biotechnol 35(7): 676-683 (2017). Bowers …

… mean, you might be producing things at different stages of growth or different signals from the environment might cause … blob – sort of overexposed – but this this white blob is a fungus called Penicillium . Now called Penicillium . And so … saved millions of lives since then. So, Penicillium is a fungus. But as people sort of started exploring these kinds …

… susceptible to a fungal infection of rye grain – a specific fungus, Claviceps purpurea, can infect grain. And when it … But where taxol comes from is, from the bark of the yew tree, is where it was originally discovered. And so that … actually, they discovered that Taxol is also produced by a fungus that happens to grow near this tree and so there was …

… in genomics and other omics technologies.  The exponential growth of DNA sequencing data, coupled with recent … of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life.  Nature Biotechnology  35(7):676-683 Schulz …

… learning to identify new divergent lineages and expand the Tree of Life. We then investigate the coding potential to … et al. (2017) Towards a balanced view of the bacterial tree of life. Microbiome. 5 (1), 1-6 Schulz et al. (2017) …

… into practical applications, including sustainable biofuels, biomaterials, natural products, and environmental … roles associated with plants (mycorrhizae, endophytes, growth promoters, or pathogens) and as the most efficient … to sequence 1000 fungal genomes from across the Fungal Tree of Life, from an international research team in …