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… carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest soils hold keys to tree … give researchers a way to access much more information about fungi in these environments. “Now with these new tools … Sweden or Quebec.  Ecologically, Martin suggests this redundancy is protective, a bit like diversifying an investment …

… development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a resource for … work with Nadia Shakoor, a research scientist at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.  This work is the result of … how we think of things that we thought we knew everything about,” said Lovell.  In future work, a pangenome offers …

… expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could … they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those considered large and giant. … the globe, then using these sequences to make inferences about the biogeographic distribution of these viruses in the …

… so nice and helpful.”     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and really open to talking about their work. It’s fun to be around people who are generous with their time and like nerding out about the big stuff, well, the little stuff! People hold …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant representatives of deep subsurface ecosystems. A team … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). To learn more about how microbial populations respond to virus infections, …

… of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in … or no oxygen, life had found other ways to produce energy, using a process called fermentation. To better understand … used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. …

… walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use cellulose. Finally, there are soil saprotrophs, which degrade plant detritus. Despite the different modes of nutrition, many of these … in moving toward functional genomics studies to learn more about the inner workings of plant-host and …