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… datasets. The work was  recently published in the journal  Developmental Cell and provides a community resource … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Report Released Berkeley Lab News:  Five Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive Prestigious Five-Year Research Grant   … …

… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do … prediction approaches, researchers have created a new program called iPHoP (pronounced “eye-pop”,  freely … described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has discovered that the candidate … evolutionary consequences. A previous study conducted by our research team surveying the genomic and phenotypic …

… about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the … originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, scientists have shed light on both when and how eelgrass … many species able to occupy the regions where eelgrass flourishes. The plant can thrive in both frigid and tropical …

… when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break … proteins in the samples were then isolated and sequenced by scientists at the Environmental Molecular Sciences …

… to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. … goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the approach they used to …

… on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a … be the first publicly available, river-focused microbial resource that provides information at multiple scales from … systems, these communities remain understudied. Through the JGI’s Community Science Program, Colorado State University …

… growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual … effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of scientists studied what happens to the tree’s physical … as secreted proteins. However,  M. elongata  seems to encourage the plant to have leakier cell walls and weaker …

… diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often source their nutrients — the shii tree, a Japanese relative … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …