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… down polysaccharides. But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful … bacterial clades can metabolize hemicellulose and pectin. However, the two specialize to an extent.  Gilliamella  … of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey bees and bumblebees showed that strains in bumblebees more often lack the ability …

… we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … Lab researchers working with the JGI successfully simulated how successive waves of microbial populations degraded the …

… a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is triggered when nutrients are acquired … the fruiting of soil saprotrophic mushrooms. To date, how the nutritional acquisition of the morel mycelium is … supply to the soil. In contrast, isotopic evidence showed that morel mycelium colonizing the …

… proposals by a consortium. The consortium looked at how different bioenergy relevant plants can produce …

… experimentally derived biological roles to genes. Sarah:  How many plants did you all look at? Avinash: We started off … project. Sarah:  I assume you were not doing this alone. How many groups were you working with? Avinash: In the … switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) experimental data. Sarah:  How important is collaboration in the big data and plant …

… the small molecules glycerol and itaconic acid to see how the cell-free system allowed them to increase the … in the absence of cell walls. If we can continue to learn how to focus the carbon flux, we can avoid transport …

… dataset gives researchers a new foundation for studying how fungi produce and manage energy at the cellular level. … trees built from mitochondrial and nuclear genomes showed strong agreement across the kingdom, confirming that … fungal metabolic traits from genomic data to understand how biological systems produce and manage energy. By …

… disease. Finally, gene editing is being used to understand how a person’s genetic makeup predisposes them to, or … and Nanohaloarchaea. This work represents an excellent showcase of the unique capabilities provided from the IMG/M … Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Support was also provided …

… users will enable us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI …

… Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with little or no oxygen, life had … of these microbes. The Impact This study illustrates how the research community brings together the data …

… function and activity of phytoplankton genes and looking at how communities of these microalgae interact, researchers … analysis as well as laboratory culture experiments showed that those zinc-binding proteins are important for … data from the JGI. With multiple threads of evidence showing that zinc has allowed polar algae to inhabit their …

… or 5mC. In many organisms, 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate their genomes, but is not well understood …