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… soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to environmental changes. The program lays the groundwork for … energy feedstocks. It also tackles challenges posed by environmental change, focusing on plant resilience — … into plant-microbiome interactions, focusing on how environmental stress and microbial communities affect plant …

… analyzing and harnessing genomic information from plants, fungi, algae, non-medical microbes, microbial communities, … Supported by the DOE Office of Science's Biological and Environmental Research program, the JGI integrates the … relevant to the DOE science mission areas of bioenergy and environmental microbiome processes.  Among the JGI’s largest …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex … thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in … proteins. That work was done in collaboration with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a DOE …

… interactions. These insights are crucial for addressing key environmental challenges, such as improving soil health, … sequencing of micro-eukaryotes directly isolated from environmental samples.  …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative … Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of fungi from aquatic to terrestrial habitats. The work is part … aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Ying Chang in …

… Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The … activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant fibers. But are … were then isolated and sequenced by scientists at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a DOE …

… bacterial sacred metabolite, and ergot alkaloids come from fungi, and Taxol from plants. Plants, fungi, bacteria, archaea, they all have secondary … grow. Nitrogen is usually one of the, you know, important environmental [resources] that plants need to grow. And so, …

… The Impact N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall … of sustainable biofuels and bioproducts. Filamentous fungi are also being used in the biotechnology industry to … enzymes, proteins, and other chemicals. Summary Filamentous fungi are like handymen who show up at a job site for a task …

… to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper … of tough plants. Thanks to gut microbes — namely, anaerobic fungi — these animals are able to pry apart plant polymers … use to bust biomass apart. She and her team find these fungi, and their enzymes, primarily in animal poop.  “As an …

… Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon … research on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots.  …