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… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a … floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to … a USDA NIFA award (2021-67019-34608) to M.J.W. FTICR-MS analyses were performed under the Facilities Integrating …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  … This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP150100244) and the Australian …

… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Researchers used a library-based approach to fine-tune gene expression. They tested … Alper and his team also applied this method to a production-based scenario, in this case, the production of …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To … hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these … U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Early Career Research Program …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of …

… Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a … communities in New Mexico via leakage from a local dry-cleaner. Researchers  identified two bacteria,  Dehalococcoides … Program , they were able to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on the  …

… chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, … Program (DEB-1542509 to S.D., DEB-1542486 to LBS, and DEB-1542599 to M.O.). Support was also provided by the … 31561123001, 31500502, 41871044), National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC0505203, …

… these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as biofuels and other bioproducts. … the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under Agreements NL0032355 and …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface … The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. … by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical labelling approach. The Impact …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The … enable organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. Department of … (proposal:  https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60000691 , and  https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60007554 ) conducted …

… to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts and floods. The planet’s resources are being stretched by a … This research was funded in part by DOE Grant DE-SC0014081 (to N.V., B.C., C.G., G.P., M.M., J.H., …

… fungus  Mortierella 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 … This work was supported by the Plant-Microbe Interfaces program at the Oak Ridge National …