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New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often …

The  National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … available for research over 100,000 samples and specimens of over 60 different types of NEON samples and specimens per …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes … characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC Merced … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … of viruses that infect not just crops, animals and humans, but also microbes whose presence or absence can …

New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of …

New 5-year strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the … for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national …

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … viruses in the same drop—the vast majority not harmful to humans could be even larger. Viruses infect bacteria, …

As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust … tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is …