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… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science … burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process … to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems …

… they grow, as well as different types of environments (e.g. soil, lake).  A wide range of metabolites are identified …

… effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health. The work was enabled in part by a community … the complex process of uncovering the hidden secrets of soil viruses. The Impact The specific protein described in  … of the Scientific Focus Area “Phenotypic response of the soil microbiome to environmental perturbations” to JKJ and …

… predicted functional and metabolic roles across global metagenomes (within IMG).  The Impact The initial analysis … protein-coding annotations in all IMG metagenomes. The work is of interest to the Department of … in microbiomes. The initial analysis used over 12,000 metagenomes from diverse environments and grouped those with …

… and nutrient cycling to enhance crop resilience, improve soil health, and make more efficient use of marginal lands …

… validating an integrated approach to genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging … them to reconstruct more near-complete genomes from soil metagenomes compared to other methods. The Impact … individual genomes, particularly from incredibly complex soil microbial communities, is crucial to understanding how …

… and culture-disconnected. Like we’ll take some soil samples and sequence all the bugs out of that or … to bacteria. If you go into another country and take soil and discover a new important drug from the microbes in that soil, there are now international regulations that provide a …

… a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell …

… products because they’re easy to find. They grow in the soil. These are the same guys that produce geosmin. And so … natural environment. They usually grow down within the soil. And that purple blob is going to be chock full of … the big drug discovery companies were creating libraries of soil bacteria they kept and – ALISON: Yeah, vancomycin …

… off through these areas. And you can do– with a teaspoon of soil from outside, you maybe have to do a 10,000-fold … is– for us, that’s dripping water, percolating through the soil through leaf litter and humic acids and those kind of … it significantly different than what you might see in, say, soil or any other kind of environments? BRIAN BACHMANN: No, …