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Integrative visual omics of the white-rot fungus Polyporus brumalis exposes the biotechnological potential of its oxidative enzymes for delignifying raw plant biomass
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Fungal Friends or Foes in Plant Roots
Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host health. … boost yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. Summary A plant is like an office building, its … isolates from the collection. The team then compared this dataset against nearly 80 previously published fungal …
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IMG Webinar Series
Find a series of webinars related to our Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes portal. …
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Host population diversity as a driver of viral infection cycle in wild populations of green sulfur bacteria with long standing virus-host interactions
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Synergistic interactions between anammox and dissimilatory nitrate reducing bacteria sustains reactor performance across variable nitrogen loading ratios
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JGI Accepts 17 Proposals for Community Science Program
Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University seeks to understand and enhance the rubber biosynthesis pathway in …
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The Megadata of Lake Mendota – Part 3: Boating Out to David Buoy
This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In … last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every part of … researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater ecosystem. …
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Experimenting with EcoFABs for Student Labs - Jill Bouchard & Ying Wang
To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and … Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers …
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JGI@25: Roots of a Mutualist Relationship
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … bicolor has a symbiotic relationship with poplar … Fungal Datasets … Genome Inside: THE Bioenergy Tree …
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Effects of Polar Light Cycle on Microbial Food Web
Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the norm when it … more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. Therefore, understanding the microbial activity that dominates these …
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What Happens To a Rainforest When You Dial Up Drought?
Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil … with their experiments in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2.      …
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Taking Stock of the Known and Unknown Microbial Space
Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an … Information (NCBI) GenBank collection and on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database. …
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