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JGI is a key driver in some of the science. ALISON: Very cool. Yeah, and I see a lot of these secondary compounds on … products because they’re easy to find. They grow in the soil. These are the same guys that produce geosmin. And so we … weaken a cell wall, then the bacteria will just pop like a water balloon. But, you know, if you make modifications to …
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… the streams where the hills, as it rained or whatever, any water that washed down off the hills might carry small … term that really kind of fit and stuck. ALISON TAKEMURA: Cool. And so how did you get involved in genome mining? DAN … disparate environments. There’s some marine. There’s some soil samples. There’s human gut samples. There’s lots and …
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… as hurricanes and droughts. Another one began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third the size of the United States began … Alaska. Over the next two years it slowly spread, raising water temperatures by a few degrees. Eventually The Blob …
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… welcome back to Natural Prodcast, and this will be episode 11. This continues our little sprint on genome mining. In … large enzymes. And I was like, OK, wow, these are really cool. And I get to talk to them. And then I really get very … the action of the microbiome because if you sterilize the soil, the protective effect is gone. You can transplant the …
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… thicker ice with younger, thinner ice means more fresh water — and less salt — near the surface where algae grow. … use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary Water temperatures and salinity determine how life thrives … dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed …
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… or online catalog, I guess. So we've also been able to get soils from Purdue campus itself and been able to actually … Yeah, OK. BETSY PARKINSON: I will fully admit. DAN: OK. OK, cool. JACKIE: So they're very much developed their own … people what that number is. BETSY PARKINSON: So micromolar, 10 to the negative 6th. Nanomolar, 10 to the negative 9th. …
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… the program supports foundational research related to soil nutrient cycling and health, terrestrial biogeochemical … samples — including microbes, fungi, plants and soils. Through a combination of experimental workflows and … the interactions between plants, microbes, and soils relevant to key environmental processes and the …
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As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal … and a little-characterized microbiome. When warm waters stress corals, it might be their microbes, including …
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