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… potentially of use in fields ranging from agriculture to biotechnology and medicine, the vast majority in, on, and … of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, … another might exhibit few limitations to interactions and new connections, thus sharing more ideas, similar to the …

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New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in … on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new analysis takes a  genomic look at Lentinula samples from … in the global  carbon cycle . As decayers, Lentinula fungi access carbon previously locked away in wood, converting it …

… plant genus. Peatlands accumulate partially decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 … up nearly 3 percent of the earth’s land surface. In the New Phytologist, researchers led by David Weston of Oak …

Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more carbon? … they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant …

The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … diversity quickly, allowing these viruses to target new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much … number of microbial genomes. That means that those viruses accessed many more potential microbial cells or hosts. This …

… a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the … water, and humans—around the world. By the numbers, the new approach detected inoviruses in 3,609 (6 percent) of the … but we are limited in our predictive methods to discover new anti-CRISPRs,” said Adair Borges, a graduate student in …