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Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at …

… 2020 (watch the  video below, captions are available) spotlighted the metabolomic analysis capability available … (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … Genomics proposal calls, projects can request up to 50 polar and 150 nonpolar metabolomics analyses. For the other …

Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of … that may impact microbiome structure and biogeochemical cycles. He provides his expertise to the JGI user community … J.-M. et al. 2022. A centimeter-long bacterium at the interface of simple and complex life. Science . 376: 1453-1458 …

… ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach … of doing a lot of unique things when it comes to energy cycles — turning biomass into things like ethanol or …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … its intimate associations with endophytes — a group whose effects on plants are still not well understood — scientists … power could help usher widespread use of biofuel as a replacement to fossil fuel. … This work was supported by the …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of … parts are proteins — amino acid structures that harvest light, transport molecules and regulate reactions. …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … This is because MGEs can affect a microbe’s ability to cycle nutrients or produce new chemicals. They can also … tool to conduct their research. Designed to reduce the effects of taxonomic representation biases during marker …