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Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) … collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more … in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offers more ways for scientists to explore the balance …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome assemblies highlight the multiple advances in sequencing … where it is a major part of the flora, fire moss has adapted to conditions such as UV irradiation, heavy metal …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a … Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) was enacted by Congress in 1980 for Superfund sites which are … Program , they were able to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on the  …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science … in many regions due to more extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts and floods. The planet’s resources … to produce good yields under water limiting conditions. Epigenetic Control of Drought Response in Sorghum (EPICON) is a …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other … study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class within  Chloroflexota called  Dehalococcoidia . Some  … enable organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. Department of …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs … elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components … The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove … make use of it, it would change the entire landscape of biomass production and bioproduct engineering. Summary That …