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Better Genome Editing for Bioenergy

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for … only the most reliable sgRNAs for their final set. Tool in hand, the team was ready to test what genes were essential …

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JGIota: Looking Back at How Cow Rumen Samples Landed on a Syllabus

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used …

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Busting the Unbreakable Lignin

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a … switchgrass and poplar, then monitored changes to the plants’ lignocellulose composition, as well as degradation …

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Characterization of four endophytic fungi as potential consolidated bioprocessing hosts for conversion of lignocellulose into advanced biofuels

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Genome-scale phylogenetic analyses confirm Olpidium as the closest living zoosporic fungus to the non-flagellated, terrestrial fungi

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Early Diverging Insect-Pathogenic Fungi of the Order Entomophthorales Possess Diverse and Unique Subtilisin-Like Serine Proteases

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The gold-standard genome of Aspergillus niger NRRL 3 enables a detailed view of the diversity of sugar catabolism in fungi

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Fungi Contribute Critical but Spatially Varying Roles in Nitrogen and Carbon Cycling in Acid Mine Drainage

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Comparative genomics provides insights into the lifestyle and reveals functional heterogeneity of dark septate endophytic fungi