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… fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a … allow host plants, such as candidate  bioenergy feedstock crops, to acquire nutrients. Additionally, these results … relationships outside of the root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing …

… agricultural staples and candidate bioenergy feedstock crops, are recent polyploids. Crop breeders have harnessed polyploidy to increase fruit … and  B. distachyon , a relative of the candidate bioenergy crop switchgrass and a JGI Flagship Plant. All three  …

The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk … microbes within metagenome samples and associate their sequences with their roles within their environments. … be sequenced. Their protocol,  detailed in the journal  Microbiome , combines multiple techniques and was …

… bacterial clades shared between honey bee and bumblebee gut microbiomes. Researchers found that pollen’s pectin and … is a division of labor by these bacterial groups. But why the strain variability? The authors think the reason may … it might make sense that honey bees have a more efficient microbiome to harvest all the energy they can. The results …

… involved in capsid maturation. Recently reported in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy … increased the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By … they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 unique MCP sequences.  …

… many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … different Swiss Army knives — explaining a bit more about why and how nitrogen metabolism is so robust and varied.  …

… and environmental challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published … a JGI Flagship Genome and the first tree to have its genome sequenced. Having this first genome sequence of a mycorrhizal fungus shifted the focus from …

A 2021 Nature paper announcing a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome , using samples … paper on the release of the high quality reference genome sequence of green millet ( Setaria viridis ). The team of … to the multinational consortium of researchers that sequenced and assembled the simplest cotton genome ( …