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… considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With the aim of producing at least one reference genome for … Office of Science User Facility, and others like it, are uncovering the true diversity of the fungal kingdom. The …

… poorly-studied algal and viral genomes, and integrate with key DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research … species. Many fungi have beneficial symbiotic relationships with plants and bacteria; in many instances, fungal … Dick of The Ohio State University aims to study plant drought resilience in the Sahel, an arid region of West …

… into undergraduate teaching laboratories with minimal overhead (cost of media, ITS sequencing and … and to reduce teaching-lab costs, we have partnered with the Arizona Genomics Institute where high molecular … datasets encompassing a wide array of fungal genomes, along with curated metadata to enable comprehensive comparative …

… features prominently among the eleven proposals selected with four focused on biofuels and bioproducts. For example, … that may be relevant to both algae and land plants.  Within the biogeochemistry group, one of the four proposals … to learn more about climate change feedbacks including drought and increasing temperatures on tropical rainforests, …

… technological advancements that facilitate the shift from uncovering microbial novelties to deciphering metabolic and …

With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program … role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to environmental changes. … (see Brachypodium Resources below) PennyPan on Phytozome SorghumPan on Phytozome … Phytozome is the JGI's Plant …

Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. … to  Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to sample the … at once — rather than cultivating a single microorganism within a lab setting.  Roland Hatzenpichler is an associate …

… book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers … most organism’s genetic information is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering the instructions inside DNA to the cell, … the RNA virome However, this is now real Big Data, we are dealing with billions of sequences, and soon, with …

Microbiome. 5 (1), 1-6 Schulz et al. (2017) Giant viruses with an expanded complement of translation system … Schulz et al. (2016) A Rickettsiales symbiont of amoebae with ancient features. Environmental Microbiology. 18 (8), … 25 (6), 339-346 Schulz et al. (2015) Marine amoebae with cytoplasmic and perinuclear symbionts deeply branching …

… independently evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that … species include 29 newly-sequenced mycorrhizal genomes. With so many fungal  genomes , the team conducted a … of Forest Soil Ecosystems project (CSP # 570) and the 1000 Fungal Genome projects (CSP # 662 & 1974). …

Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back to 1997, when … The genomic landscape of molecular responses to natural drought stress in Panicum hallii . Nature Communications 9: …

… a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue … Because microorganisms live in complex communities, like within soils or the gut, they are difficult to study … up the pace at which researchers can extract the bioenergy secrets they hold. HT-SIP is a capability available to …