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… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  … can be used to create compounds more efficiently than one strain could on its own.  In work published in  … the CRAGE technology. Instead of only accommodating one DNA insertion, the new system, CRAGE-Duet, can …

… when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant … to an extent.  Gilliamella  primarily degrades pectin. But not all strains of  Gilliamella  are capable of pectin … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US Department of …

… fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not essential for fundamental growth, provide critical … However, secondary metabolite production is often not fully realized under standard laboratory conditions, … factors and determine their binding sites across multiple genomes. Computational prediction of heterologous …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference fungal  genome . The study’s pivotal NMR (nuclear …

… (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … a previous international collaboration that produced the reference genome sequence for Eucalyptus grandis. Accessing … are led by researchers, including Nelson and Roth, who have not been a principal investigator on a previously approved …

… to technical limitations and the sheer complexity of plant genomes. Now, with improvements to DNA Affinity Purification … Berkeley National Laboratory. “These proteins’ binding preferences are very, very stable over long evolutionary … adaptation. “You learn a lot more than you would from each one individually,” Baumgart added. “By combining these data, …

… four letters represents an organism’s genetic code, or genome, which underlies physical features and functions. … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the … a fungal comparative ENCODE project known as FUNCODE. “We noticed a few years ago that there is no shortage of fungal …

… plant host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots … colonize roots by degrading the plant cell wall component pectin. The results therefore predicted that these … of plant root microbiome and other microbiomes by providing reference genomes of the key community participants and …