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A Grass Model to Help Improve Giant Miscanthus
Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … to novel traits.  M. sinensis is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets … nitrogen in its rhizomes – in the form of the nitrogen-rich amino acid asparagine – and remobilize this nitrogen in the …
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Lipid analysis of CO2-rich subsurface aquifers suggests an autotrophy-based deep biosphere with lysolipids enriched in CPR bacteria
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Whole-Genome rVISTA: a tool to determine enrichment of transcription factor binding sites in gene promoters from transcriptomic data
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The Essential Role of the N-Terminal Domain of the Orange Carotenoid Protein in Cyanobacterial Photoprotection: Importance of a Positive Charge for Phycobilisome Binding
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Contribution of calcium ligands in substrate binding and product release in the Acetovibrio thermocellus glycoside hydrolase family 9 cellulase CelR
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Comparative Biochemical and Structural Analysis of Novel Cellulose Binding Proteins (Tāpirins) from Extremely Thermophilic Caldicellulosiruptor Species.
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Rumen metagenome and metatranscriptome analyses of low methane yield sheep reveals a Sharpea-enriched microbiome characterised by lactic acid formation and utilisation
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Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Synthesis by “Candidatus Weimeria bifida” gen. nov., sp. nov., and “Candidatus Pseudoramibacter fermentans” sp. nov.
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Salicylic acid activates poplar defense against the biotrophic rust fungus Melampsora larici‐populina via increased biosynthesis of catechin and proanthocyanidins
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Pinning Down a Piece of Photosynthesis
By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … moving parts. A lot of these moving parts are proteins — amino acid structures that harvest light, transport … a domain of unknown function as Domain Related to Iron, and defined the structure and function of this protein. Starting …
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Better Genome Editing for Bioenergy
A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” In this study,  published in  … biomass carbohydrates — glucose and xylose — into fatty acids that could be used for renewable fuel. In fact, lipids …
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A Grass Model to Help Improve Giant Miscanthus
Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … to novel traits. M. sinensis is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets … nitrogen in its rhizomes – in the form of the nitrogen-rich amino acid asparagine – and remobilize this nitrogen in the …
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