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… to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and … peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat … sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, then tested for heat and pH stress by Oak …

Our research is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence … mSystems. 5 (3) Schulz et al. (2018) Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses. Nature Communications. 9 (1), 1-9 Schulz …

… genomics complements metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale … of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, … ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from microbial and metagenome sequence data sets generated from a …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … affiliated with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK — a nonprofit that was founded to help sequence the human …

… latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. … ‘Dark Matter’ Microbial communities living everywhere from soils and stomachs to the deep sea are capable of doing a lot …