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… The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including … from the atmosphere than current natural processes and use it as a sustainable resource for making high-value bioproducts. As a … Council grant (ERC 637675 ‘SYBORG’), as well as the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office …

… bacteria evolved could help inform engineering microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. Summary Hot springs are … A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class within  Chloroflexota called  … (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported by the Office of Science of the …

… Dehalococcoides mccartyi and  Dehalobacter restrictus,  that work together to break down PCE into the chemical … by Congress in 1980 for Superfund sites which are hazardous waste areas that require cleanup and long-term … are ongoing to complete cleanup.  The process that was used to clean up the toxic chemicals is commonly known as …

… yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … this affects the growth and survival of the microorganisms that live there.  A  Communications Biology article … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary … in marginal lands and with minimal resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be … algal genomes sequences are available on the JGI’s  PhycoCosm portal. …

… how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, … of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the …

… workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid sequence into a smaller, constant-length vector using deep learning. Vector …

… data policies. Since completion of the HGP, the JGI has sustained its commitment to uploading sequence data generated on behalf of its user community to NCBI as well as to the  data portals that … managed the growing corpus of sequence data for all organisms as a public good available to all users for any …

… scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … nearly five decades. In these frigid systems, where organisms higher up in the food web like fish do not exist, … cycling takes place only on a microbial level. Previous studies focused on the Southern Ocean have found that in …

… cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but … To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; shotgun metagenomic … (https:// ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported by the Office of Science of the …

… Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | … , with significant advances compared to the 2014 Eucalyptus grandis reference genome that has been widely adopted. … that the 2025 haplotype-phased assemblies are 70–90 Mbp smaller than the 2014 reference, though they have similar …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins …