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… climate shifts. (C4 plants use a more efficient form of photosynthesis that reduces water loss, compared to the …

Computational Sieves to Filter Sequences There are more microbes on the planet than particles in a handful of dirt, and viruses vastly outnumber the microbes. Advances in sequencing technologies and … that infect not just crops, animals and humans, but also microbes whose presence or absence can impact the planet’s …

… the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly … in the uptake and transport of diverse substrates, and also photosynthesis genes including potential light-driven proton …

… on the genetic mechanisms of chemotaxis in the Arabidopsis microbiome, particularly, how bacteria can be driven toward …

State University and colleagues are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially … dominated Copper River Delta. They’re looking at how the microbes in these high latitude wetlands, such as the Copper … colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes interact with their environment, potentially …

… place where you can browse the genetic blueprints of these photosynthetic organisms. PhycoCosm is one of the largest … tools created by JGI researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for microbial and metagenome …

… place where you can browse the genetic blueprints of these photosynthetic organisms. PhycoCosm is one of the largest … tools created by JGI researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for microbial and metagenome …

Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

… resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing … how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt … in the ocean; this affects the growth and survival of the microorganisms that live there.  A  Communications Biology …

… genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different microhabitats – Sphagnum fallax and S. magellanicum. The … cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon … oxidation. The findings lead them to speculate that these microbes could use the same pathway for either sulfur …