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… many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often …

… DNA design and synthesis superpower. Through a series of case studies, JGI scientific users share how they’ve worked … The research collaboration has been incredibly productive; more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants … PI on this project. “I view the program as an excellent platform to build collaborative research initiatives.” Yasuo …

… to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and bacteria are more …

… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a … the most expressed genes are also the most efficient at making proteins likely factors into why fungi have been so … were conducted on one or few genomes, but Wint’s research expands the understanding of hundreds of fungal genomes …

… 10-fold through computational approaches. By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic datasets in … & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able … were found in diverse habitats including the air, plant rhizosphere, wastewater, and even animal and human …