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… More time-series studies could help researchers improve predictive models on how climate change may impact marine … communities up and down the water column. They recently shared their findings in Communications Biology . They reported …

… PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative analysis tools …

… (ICCO), global cocoa bean production in 2017-2018  was 4.6 million metric tons . The global chocolate brands …

… what is still unknown.  “We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we've actually captured,” said co-first author Dongying Wu, a member of the … of bacterial and archaeal diversity, shedding light on the unknown microbial space. While MAGs …

… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant … life forms and with little exception, organisms have figured out how to create enzymes that break these components … on sorghum, switchgrass and poplar, then monitored changes to the plants’ lignocellulose composition, as well …

… pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the …

… to offer a window into viral existence. Along with highlighting the viruses in a given sample, metagenomics shed … viral genomes. The new database was called IMG/VR. It featured samples from different ecosystems all over the world, including 3,908 isolate reference DNA viruses and 264,413 computationally …

… of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 …