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… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … other than photosynthesis to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite … Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them …

… plants to harness for bioenergy. In this episode, hear from Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists who have …

… Since one of the challenges of developing alternative fuels from plants is the high cost and resource requirements of … in the journal Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists to … cultured by analyzing and then extrapolating data obtained from environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 …

… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down … still producing things like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand …

… young in structures called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and …

… 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 … with  M. elongata . Poplar might be detecting lipids from  M. elongata;  the fungus produces them so …

… a cysteine protease involved in capsid maturation. Recently reported in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & …

… and thrive — some varieties grow their leafy stalks 16 to 18 feet into the air. Beyond being a staple grain eaten … reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, 107 patent applications, and 53 patents have … plants in drought conditions for three years (2016-2018) in the field in Parlier, California at the UC Kearney …

… class  Dothideomycetes includes fungi that obtain nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant … the data provided. In this proof of concept test, the team reported that the algorithm was over 95% successful at … predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S et al.  Studies in Mycology , 2020.) Using …

… From left to right: [above] Emma Bell, Mallory Choudoir, … for novel research projects — aligned with DOE missions and from PIs who have not led any previously-accepted proposals …

… soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual … Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, then tested for heat and pH stress by …