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… around the world whose livelihoods depend on cotton production, and the crop’s annual economic impact of $500 … , both faculty investigators at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. “The goal has been for all this new cotton work, and even the original cotton …

… of how plants adapted to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. … helped plants thrive under challenging conditions could inform the development of resilient crop varieties able to … resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be converted into biofuels and …

… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever … of Technology he developed a high throughput approach for isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying … interactions in the hyphosphere of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Microbiome 199 Needham, D.M. et al. 2019. A distinct …

… back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often … kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of analysis would provide a … each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, archaea, protist, plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify 2,938 …

… 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 Center) drove up and …

… shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted … chemical, where ordinary Carbon-12 atoms are swapped for the heavier, non-radioactive isotope Carbon-13, … illuminating the inner workings of an environment. For example, SIP experiments can show how soil microbes …

… viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the diversity for large and giant viruses offered the researchers insights … possible to seek out and characterize uncultivated viruses. For instance, a 2018 study from a JGI-led team uncovered giant viruses in the soil for the first time. The current study applied a multi-step …

… leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications.       Despite advances in … in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. …