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… relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US … to living on a changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary … called crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM — that’s C-A-M, for short — helps plants that have it lose less water in a …

… known to infect most major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  …

… , both faculty investigators at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. “The goal has been for all this new … disciplines that relate directly and indirectly to genetic diversity, evolution, wild germplasm utilization and … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent … carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to a sustainable bioeconomy, … hot springs, an extreme environment with low genetic diversity that would help narrow down potential sources of …

… . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments … evolved could help inform engineering microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. … and pH levels vary wildly from spring to spring. These biodiversity hotspots harbor specialized microbial communities …

… plays an important role in regulating microbial cellulose production and biofilm formation, which affects a number of environments, including … may eventually lead to ways to improve cellulose-based biofuel synthesis. Additionally, it opens the door to …

… down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the DOE. The work conducted by the DOE Joint Genome …

… Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 … and Environment (INRAE). Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples … Overall, they found that despite vast species diversity, each guild carried out remarkably similar …