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… food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come … microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …

… complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US Department of …

Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can lead to changes in protein structures … 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate their genomes, but is not well understood in fungi. A team of …