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Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact … yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. Summary A plant is like an office building, its roots …

… of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. … in soils and sediments and plant-microbial interactions in crops. He has been a PI or Co-PI on five user projects with …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy crops more efficiently. Summary To interrogate the close …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide …

… led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of … As seen with many commonly cultivated commercial crops such as wheat, peanut, oat, banana, potato, etc., …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo … at Tel Aviv University in Israel, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, and the U.S. Department of Energy … have uncovered a diversity of viruses that infect not just crops, animals and humans, but also microbes whose presence …

… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority not harmful to humans …