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… biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant …

… the ocean through vents at temperatures that can exceed 750 degrees Fahrenheit. The minerals in these fluids include … funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants OCE-0728391, OCE-0937404, OCE-1558795 to A-L.R, and OCE-2049478 and DBI-2047598 …

… soil microbiome diversity and function.  Nature Microbiol. 7(9):1419-1430. Ye et al (2022) The role of zinc in the … evolution of polar phytoplankton.  Nature Ecol Evol . 6(7):965-978. Grigoriev et al (2021) PhycoCosm, a comparative algal …

… of genes, termed  The GreenCut2 Resource . It details 597 genes coding for proteins that are unique to … a similar region —  a domain of unknown function, DUF2470. In the world of proteins, a domain of unknown function … into focus. Blaby-Haas and her team hypothesized that DUF2470 was key to iron metabolism, and renamed it to Domain …

Olpidium zoospores remained largely untouched until seven years later. In 2018, as members of the ZyGoLife consortium … Taking a conservative approach, we were able to assemble ~75% of the Olpidium genome and retrieve ~300 markers for … to the sequencing effort by the JGI and ZyGoLife in recent years. With the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic …

… more than once, and these events took place a million years apart: the individual with a maternal  B. distachyon parent (D plastotype) some 1.4 million years ago (Mya), while the S plastotype was a more recent … anticipated with only minor gene loss even after a million years.” Reference genomes for  B. distachyon ,  B. stacei …

… type of food that was in the contaminated aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of the shallow portions of the groundwater were … remain.  To identify the microbes involved in the early years of the biodegradation process, researchers collected …

… papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the JGI-supported project. “The JGI … the enzyme-encoding constructs, the team studied more than 70 enzymes and how they grab hold of different substrates. … of the DNA Synthesis Science Program by applying to the year-round Community Science Program Functional Genomics …

… but we knew the families,” Kyrpides said. Yet, “almost 20 years of metagenomic data and metagenomic analysis, and … of new protein families had started to plateau in recent years, perhaps suggesting that scientists had “captured” … the protein families up by environment and found only 7% of protein families were shared across all eight …

… this way was challenging, according to Martin. “Twelve years ago, when we mapped the first sequenced RNA from the … Fungal Genomes project changed that. This is a multi-year project in collaboration with the JGI to sequence 1000 … After starting with about 200 fungal genomes, in just a few years, he said, the 1000 Fungal Genomes project, together …

… in, on, and around the planet remain unknown. In recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic … diverse than those within more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from … This work was also sponsored by NSF grants DEB-1441717, OCE-1335810, and OIA-1826734 to RS. …

ENCODE project known as FUNCODE. “We noticed a few years ago that there is no shortage of fungal genomes … functional interpretation is as tough as it has been 10 years ago,” he said. “We thought about reconstructing gene …