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JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a … the binding location for most transcription factors in a species,” O’Malley said. “It’s a unique capability; no one …

… our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water … plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from … crops.  One grass they studied just happened to be the same species that covered World Cup pitches in 2022.             …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE … of disciplines who seek to better understand the ecological importance of virus-microbe interactions,” Rambo added. Both …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female … strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first time, the sex …

… impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a carbon sink. Summary As global temperatures rise, so do instances of extreme weather …

From left to right: [above] Olivia Ahern, Adriana Corales, Hugh Cross, … Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals this year,” noted Tanja Woyke, … in: sustainable biofuel and bioproducts production, global carbon and nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry. You …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in … Microbial viruses can thus have significant impacts on the global nutrient cycles regulated by their hosts. For …

… hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of …

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

… learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … this work leverages.   These experiments focused on two species at once: the model legume species  Medicago …