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… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do so, these …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate … activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant fibers. But are … Science Foundation (18- 25706S and 20-02022Y), by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic …

… is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and College of … nothing for. We’re also working on organisms, pathogenic fungi like Candida aureus in the lab and we work on … with plants, what’s going on between plants and mycorrhizal fungi? This has become something I think it’s always …

… 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our … 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 …

… Hey Marcy!  ALISON: Hey Marcy?  MARCY: Hello. How’s it going?  DAN: Good. How are you?  MARCY: Am fine. I live in a … working on that aspect and it’s quite active against some fungi. But we’re also really interested in distribution. So … to the ant? Or is it a signal from the pathogen to the fungi to the ant and how that works?  DAN: Right. Yeah. I …

… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at …

… of UC Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying anaerobic fungi, as well as a recent discovery that turns scientific …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … penicillin from the fungal species – probably told us that fungi could be very productive sources for, say, biological … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. … of his JGI/Berkeley Lab tenure, Ray kept the 50-year-old Walnut Creek functioning at a high level as JGI transitioned from … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes … The sequencing project was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …