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… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s stress resistance and ability to adapt to … to better manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass …

… technologies provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS Pathogens , a team of faculty and researchers describe a workforce … with potential biotechnology applications in a range of fields including agriculture, ecosystem health, and medicine …

… causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … abundant representatives of deep subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly … one particular viral genome in action, they utilized a targeted technique called virusFISH. Using fluorescently …

… With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … this program,  described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy … This information could open the door to improving crop yields and a better understanding of the roles viruses …

… our Plant Program, and is further leveraging the services of the Arizona Genomics Institute for DNA and RNA extractions to support plant and other efforts. The JGI works closely with DOE computational …