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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 plant for energy: … at making use of those other two components, which requires getting through the lignin. Researchers led by Michelle …
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Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent … They hypothesized that certain gene families — including fungal genes horizontally transferred — contributed to the …
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Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, … Marlis Reich, Taniya RoyChowdhury and Mar Schmidt; [bottom] Cody Spiegel, James Tan, Emma Timmins-Schiffman, … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel …
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For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a … in 2018. She selected one of the projects posted by JGI fungal researchers, Igor Grigoriev and Asaf Salamov, and …
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