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… and hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but these symbiotic interactions … crust, there is a vast ecosystem connected to the global carbon cycle. Archaea are key players in this deep biosphere. They …

… between cultivated and wild shiitake populations. The Impact Lentinula mushrooms are white rot fungi, belonging to … Additionally, these fungi play a role in the global  carbon cycle . As decayers, Lentinula fungi access carbon … sequencing were enabled by the Community Science Program (CSP) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

… the moss grows, stores carbon and responds to stress. The Impact Despite constituting less than 5% of land on Earth, … peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat … and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants …

… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant …

… them to reconstruct more near-complete genomes from soil metagenomes compared to other methods. The Impact Understanding how individual microbes interact with each other in a community, and …

… LanzaTech ($LNZA) is a public company that uses engineered microbes to ferment waste industrial gases into valuable … Project to study how methanotrophs — a class of microbes closely related to the company’s Pink Pigmented …

… help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …

… elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or … traits and gene expression when the fungus is present. The Impact Black cottonwood, or poplar, ( Populus trichocarpa ) … communication between the plant and fungus. Discovering how microbes can influence plant physiology helps scientists …

… the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant … genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. After joining the JGI, he formed the … that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His group also handles the Stable Isotope Probing …

… communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with … they’re eating was different, and what they’re eating are microbes.   And so that led him to come to me with the … trying to understand how the molecules in tiny microbes can impact whole ecosystems. Part of the reason he’s asking this …