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Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for … — influence the makeup and functioning of a given microbial community. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy …

The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel research projects — aligned … of desert grasslands to the metabolic savviness of microbial ecosystems at the forest floor and along ocean …

Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop … (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  genome using samples … many parts of the country also helped the team understand why some switchgrass plants from the Northeast have traits …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when … labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and bacteria are more active in … So, to be able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences …

This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii … UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of … have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be … under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and …