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Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel applications. The … estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can also act as a …

There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the … rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage …

The JGI’s DNA Synthesis Program supports a wide range of projects, from single-gene synthesis to the synthesis of entire chromosomes, advancing the development of biofuels, biochemicals and other bioenergy solutions.  …

… … DAN: Welcome back for episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger … University in British Columbia, Canada. This is the last of the podcasts we recorded in my hotel room at SIMB, or the … environmental roles of these compounds? Can we perform studies such as looking at the distributions of different …

… analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … Pinpointing the processes happening on and in forest soil also better enriches models of global carbon and … needed to build a detailed database on the denizens in the soil. While large protein databases, like UniProt, exist, …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the … method could also improve genome recovery in microbiome studies, these scientists (now at Stanford University) … together, they found most bacterial genomes from water and soil communities were at least 80% complete when studied …