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… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s … that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha …

… And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out … Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …

… A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel … encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying …

… Learn more about JGI’s  MycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of sequenced fungal … at  https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/Dicpu1 , but being not a fungus and not related to known algal clades, it is not … 10.  Q: Is there any possibility to search for genes/proteins by their commonly used names in publications? e.g. …

… In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management … challenges for collecting these soil samples, the students made coring devices, then planned and collected from 4 sites … The class discovered Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria, and Proteobacteria to be the most common phyla of bacteria …

… is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct … lipids can make up more than 90 percent of the microbe’s dry weight. In order to better harness these gobs of energy, …

… for breeders and researchers to harness the traits that let this biomass powerhouse thrive. Within its genome, … this plant eventually offers avenues for translating its strengths into other crops for biofuels and … to national energy priorities. More than a discovery in itself, this pangenome is a tool. It shows genetic variation …

… complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic … that these expressed genes translated into expected proteins. That work was done in collaboration with the … baumin. Baumin is an antioxidant, previously known to be made only by aerobic fungi. In order to identify more of the …