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A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes …

The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … and improve results. Applying this method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel …

… to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene expression allowed researchers to identify variations of essential genes in metabolic networks that were missed …

… genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome assemblies … continents, including Antarctica where it is a major part of the flora, fire moss has adapted to conditions such as UV …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The … and female sexes. For the first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other … enable organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. Department of …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key … (grant agreement no. 101001675). … Zygnema on PhycoCosm … Dataset …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or as an endophyte, living …