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… study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, … that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  about 3 million years ago. The study shows that figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 years — with many key colonization events in the Atlantic …

… ravaging citrus groves: citrus greening. From 2012 to 2016, in Florida alone this disease caused an estimated $4 … JGI’s Daniel Rokhsar, published over the last half-dozen years, on the ancestral origins of  Citrus sinensis , the …

… seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the … these plant genome sequences also led researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for … it leads to reduced harvest yields. Over thousands of years, farmers have selected for cereal plants without this …

… scientists want to take a further look into identifying genes related to biotic stresses to better understand … research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 101001675-ORIGINS) and from the FRM/FSER (FRM/FSER202302017064) … Zurich, grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (160004, 131726), the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and …

… contributing to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can help bioremediate toxic … aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of the shallow portions of the groundwater were … remain.  To identify the microbes involved in the early years of the biodegradation process, researchers collected …

… Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in … trove of microbial natural products. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2021 Nov;19(11):683. Mouncey NJ, Otani H, Udwary D, … X., Nocek, B., Li, S.N., Savchenko, A., and Eltis, L.D. (2016) The activity of CouR, a MarR family transcriptional …

… from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated … standards. Nat Microbiol . 8(5):751-753. Nayfach A, et al. 2021. A genomic catalogue of Earth’s microbiomes. Biotechnol … Nature Biotechnol. 35, 725-731. Paez-Espino D, et al. 2016. Uncovering Earth’s virome. Nature 536 , 425-430. …