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… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … from Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and the University of California, Santa Barbara and a gift from the Gordon and …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of … Rambo’s work was overseen by Susannah Tringe, head of the Microbial Systems group. He also worked with Simon Roux and …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special … The 500 species described within the group are responsible for roughly two-thirds of antibiotics, and a deeper … and the focus of a  recent paper published in  Microbial Genomics .   “Studying actinomyces, especially …

… Highlighting the latest interactive version of the JGI’s plant data portal. On … of 250 plant genomes and has been under active development for over 5 years, provides users with the genome browsers, … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was …

… Research yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for … the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand … data set will help identify how different elements of the ecosystem interact and respond to changes in the …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … expression in the organism Clostridium autoethanogenum. The microbe can utilize carbon oxides, including the greenhouse …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple … to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently … role in soil carbon storage. Summary There are three types of fungal saprotrophs in the forest. White rot can break …

… A collaborative team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, Philip Benfey at Duke University and … nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy crops more efficiently. Summary … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… The  National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … or plan on collecting RNA samples from soil or surfaces for microbe-focused collections? A: Not at the moment but it is … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …