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… natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth … Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, along with researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of … Corymbia citriodora subspecies variegata genomes allowed researchers to study the conservation and evolution of the … genome, an international effort by a team that included researchers at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office …

… bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) led a team that  identified a protein … within poplar involved in plant growth, lignin production, and disease resistance.  The Impact With increased … in the engineered plants while a Molecular Foundry researcher provided insights into how the regulatory …

… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix … (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and breed cultivars for the next … understand how sex determination works in shrub willow, researchers investigated the structures of the sex …

… Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts … convert them into energy that is then stored. A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for … bioproducts. As a step toward the long-term goal, researchers are now able to automate and fabricate synthetic …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking … the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is a striking division of … for User Science (FICUS) initiative, which allows researchers to integrate the expertise and capabilities of …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive … (symbionts) are transmitted between host generations, researchers investigated the role that bacteria living … with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . Researchers found that endobacteria establishing control …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.   … plant growth hormones. One other tidbit that caught the researchers’ attention is that the poplar cuttings had … sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the United States Department of Energy (DOE) …

… cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale single cell … Continuing explorations into this unique environment, researchers from the University of Calgary and the U.S. … work was supported in part by a Natural Sciences and Energy Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant to PFD …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and colonize diverse environments. … gut. To better understand the dynamics of this molecule, researchers developed the first chemiluminescent biosensors … a wider range of environments. This new technology enables researchers to directly measure cyclic di-GMP levels in …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … roughly 5-7,000 years ago and has been well-studied by many researchers for nearly five decades. In these frigid … the University of New South Wales, Australia, and included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a … genomes, but is not well understood in fungi. A team of researchers reported on the largest analysis of 5mC … the role of transposons and 5mC in fungi could help researchers find ways to protect poplar and other crops …