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… sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable … Eloe-Fadrosh’s Environmental Genomics group, makes a pitch for readers to get involved in the developing field of virus …

The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers … microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about the diversity … approach on bacterial laboratory models to set a reference for its performance, and then applied it to environmental …

Research yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar … molecular features to large ecosystem-level processes for the first time. By collecting data from 27 different … The Impact Dubbed “the” bioenergy tree, poplars are known for their genetic diversity. They hold economic value as …

… advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including … could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These … an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the University of Florida, an …

… the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … and Liability Act (CERCLA) was enacted by Congress in 1980 for Superfund sites which are hazardous waste areas that … environmental management, contributing to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can …

… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team … Bifidobacterium  are able to carry out this metabolic feat. For both clades, then, strains are variable in their …

… race was being waged. In this JGI@25 video, Susan Lucas, former JGI Production Department Head and current ESnet … the people and resources from these three national labs to form the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 1997. Over the next … years, and in collaboration with researchers at the Stanford Human Genome Center, JGI staff worked around the clock …

… nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  … of single-cell datasets in plants and provides a foundation for still larger efforts in diverse plant species beyond models,” he said. Cole …

… manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to … thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt levels … They are also the primary producers in the marine food web, forming the base of the food chain and providing energy for …

… always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … — scientists can better fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy … (Sunny) Liao of the University of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and soil from Washington and …

… the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most … shotgun metagenomic sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, extracting single cells and then amplifying their DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way …

… a 2012 Community Science Program proposal. Joseph Spatafora of Oregon State University led the effort to sequence 1000 fungal genomes to create two reference genomes for all fungi families — essentially, the foundation for an …