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… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and … intricate connections, and many, many moving parts. A lot of these moving parts are proteins — amino acid structures …

… Multi-species assays yield an unprecedented view of plant evolution and adaptation.    Understanding how … complex wiring behind a city’s power grid. Just as the flow of electricity controls when and where lights turn on or … processes.  Traditionally, mapping this intricate network of regulatory “switches” in plants at a large scale was akin …

… growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … on cotton production, and the crop’s annual economic impact of $500 billion worldwide underscores its value and importance in the fabric of our lives. In the United States, cotton production …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the …

… researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, … light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah Bagby (Case Western …

… Leveraging massive comparative genomics to decode millions of mystery genes and lay a future-ready foundation     Over … an estimated 2–6 million species — dwarfing the diversity of plants. To put this evolutionary timescale in … human lineage. Yet despite their ubiquity and ancient origins, fungi remain largely mysterious. Only about 200,000 …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements … studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale single cell genomics by collecting … between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though microbes help regulate the planet’s nutrient cycles and are …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for … analysis to better characterize how viruses infect soil microbes and influence how soil ecosystems function. He was …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at …

… The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … it. The isotopes are incorporated into the DNA of specific microbes who consume the labeled food or water. Later, their …