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… achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind … results showed that these fungi may be able to provide tools beyond biomass breakdown, extending into biochemical …

… the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter threads in the mix. But in the … without the assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it … a human encountering another human as tall as Mount Everest,” said Jean-Marie Volland, a scientist with joint …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast … in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too deep in the sea to get any sunlight, and … adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers studied …

The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass  Miscanthus sinensis has … been published. Analysis of the genome sequence also provides insights into how the multiple chromosomes of  Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization …

Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the …

The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been published. Analysis of the genome sequence also provides insights into how the multiple chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome … with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only … identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically …

… the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews … column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … Genome Watch in  Nature Reviews Microbiology .  The latest article, published January 27, is about engineering …