Search

… to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses … The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … These viral chitosanases were distinct from similar proteins found in archaea, fungi or bacteria. Certain …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… The Mycological Curriculum for Education and Discovery  (Myco-Ed) is a Course-Based … Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across fungal biology teaching labs. The purpose of the program is to: train students and professors in …

… host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … health and diversity, which can in turn boost yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. … . They looked for genes known to be involved in fungal-host interactions and identified 84 gene families that were …

… genomic science projects that address biological functions for biomanufacturing, critical minerals and materials, inter-organismal interactions, and predictive biology, modeling and biodesign — questions of relevance to DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research …