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… secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to … produced in response to hardship or competition. They make up the foundation for a slew of vital products in … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Michelle O’Malley and Tom Lankiewicz of UC Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying anaerobic fungi, as well as a recent discovery that turns scientific presumption on its head and opens up a new avenue to explore for efficient biofuel production. …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential … to its intimate associations with endophytes — a group whose effects on plants are still not well understood — … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, through its  …

… insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex … Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address … have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA sequencing to understand gene … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address … have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA sequencing to understand gene … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… more than 100 algal genomes, compare them, and visualize supporting experimental data. The Impact Algae are important … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for microbial and metagenome datasets, MycoCosm for comparative analysis of fungal genomes, …

… more than 100 algal genomes, compare them, and visualize supporting experimental data. The Impact Algae are important … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for microbial and metagenome datasets, MycoCosm for comparative analysis of fungal genomes, …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from …

In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage pass. …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: … that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … the polar regions to the deep ocean, cold environments occupy more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. Therefore, … Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published …