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A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address … carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, …

EA, et al. 2016. Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs. Nature … Futures … Metagenome Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

… researcher who uses metagenomics to study giant viruses in cold marine environments and is interested in analyzing genes …

New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE … JGI researcher, Zhong Wang, have adjunct faculty positions with the SNS, and Wang’s group was hosting another QSB … forward to opening the graduate internship program to a new pool of applicants. “This is the first iteration of this …

… these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of … prediction approaches, researchers have created a new program called iPHoP (pronounced “eye-pop”,  freely … in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program generated many new high-confidence host predictions across a variety of …

… to reveal metabolic pathways that could ultimately enable new or more efficient biotechnologies.  Below find a list of …

… , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the … mechanisms of sex determination could also lead to new approaches to accelerate flowering, which can speed the … internal sequence similarity, they enable gene copies to fold back on each other and thus be used as templates to …

… from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany with the aim of intensifying collaborations in the fields of … of the Microbial Genomics Program, is enthusiastic about new collaborative projects: “We are excited to continue our … but are also looking forward to jointly expanding into new areas of research. The extensive algae collection at …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The … Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome … noted, specific genes of interest could be associated with a plant’s sex. One outcome could be superfemale plants …