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… a duck and quacks like a duck, so the adage goes, it must be a duck. But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that … State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant metabolic changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential … fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always …

… Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within … mobile genetic elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle nutrients and adapt to climate change. …

… Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) … in understanding which processes change biodiversity, and how these changes affect the dynamics and functioning of … in developing or improving bioinformatics tools that can help with dataset analysis, as well as how they can be …

… attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … fungi by James et al. and Sekimoto et al . In both studies, however, Olpidium was unexpectedly grouped with … few splits in the non-flagellated terrestrial fungi were extremely short, suggesting that there were a series of …

… is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy … they used to validate their set of guide RNAs could be applied to other non-conventional organisms. Summary … before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was a …

… California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and the data has been used to better understand arsenic mobility and to …

… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have … land plants, which means they offer a lot of insights into how plant materials can be broken down for things like biomass and  biofuels . …

… with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as biofuels and other bioproducts. As any good cook knows, recipes can be refined for best results, often by starting with … series of experiments on the Scenedesmus strain to find out how well it performed under varying temperature conditions. …