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… that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of … resists a disease ravaging citrus groves: citrus greening. From 2012 to 2016, in Florida alone this disease caused an …

… Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future … trees and soils, targeting helpful bacteria, viruses and fungi. Overall, better understanding of a recovering soil … team of researchers collected soil samples from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, …

… of projects that point to the potential of seed oils as biofuel. After analyzing the original sequence, Gary Stacey … brought the soybean sequence up to date with current technology.  In addition to supporting work on the soybean … to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, …

… seven. Doudna was recognized for her work on CRISPR-Cas9, technology described by the Nobel Foundation as having “a … collection of publicly accessible metagenomic datasets from a wide variety of ecosystems around the world, … Doudna’s interest in CRISPRs began with a conversation from another UC Berkeley colleague, longtime JGI …

… how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and soil from Washington and Oregon. The cuttings included genotypes … The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in …