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An Earth Month Look at Sustainability Efforts at the JGI
… And so we’re looking at the overall greenhouse gas impacts from all of our operations,” said Brie Fulton, program manager for  Sustainable Berkeley Lab (SBL). By 2030, Berkeley Lab  aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions … Reaching that goal will mean slashing direct emissions from energy, natural gas and electricity, as well as …
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Tracing the Evolution of Shiitake Mushrooms
… Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often source their nutrients — the … from around the world. By complete sequencing of 24 new mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. …
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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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Systematic Identification of Gene Families for Use as “Markers” for Phylogenetic and Phylogeny-Driven Ecological Studies of Bacteria and Archaea and Their Major Subgroups
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Niche differentiation of bacteria and fungi in carbon and nitrogen cycling of different habitats in a temperate coniferous forest: A metaproteomic approach
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Horizontal gene transfer of the Mer operon is associated with large effects on the transcriptome and increased tolerance to mercury in nitrogen-fixing bacteria
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An Inside Look at How Plants and Mycorrhizal Fungi Cooperate
… to date. This paper  is the cover article for the April 2024 issue  of  Nature Plants .  “We wanted to better … as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In this way, encouraging … this symbiosis could improve the way soils store carbon from the atmosphere. For plants, boosting this relationship …
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Fungus Fuels Tree Growth
… of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and soil from Washington and Oregon. The cuttings included genotypes from the DOE BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), predecessor … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …
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A Genomic Perspective Across Earth’s Microbiomes Reveals That Genome Size in Archaea and Bacteria Is Linked to Ecosystem Type and Trophic Strategy
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Host population diversity as a driver of viral infection cycle in wild populations of green sulfur bacteria with long standing virus-host interactions
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H2-saturation of high affinity H2-oxidizing bacteria alters the ecological niche of soil microorganisms unevenly among taxonomic groups
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Synergistic interactions between anammox and dissimilatory nitrate reducing bacteria sustains reactor performance across variable nitrogen loading ratios
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