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Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced … genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and 62 mycorrhizal species. The 62 mycorrhizal species include 29 …

… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant … Research of the U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-SC0020420 (MAO), Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when … dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for …   The Science Hydrothermal vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. … funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants OCE-0728391, OCE-0937404, OCE-1558795 to A-L.R, and OCE-2049478 …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to … (green). (From Haridas S et al.  Studies in Mycology , 2020.) Using whole genome data from newly sequenced genomes, …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on … … The work (proposal: award at  https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60001405 ) conducted by the US Department of Energy …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw … them to test composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from … from around the world. By complete sequencing of 24 new mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 …

… s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have discovered flagella in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from … … The work (proposal:  https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60000691 , and  …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the DOE. The work conducted by the DOE Joint …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side … of plants have resulted in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, …