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National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … Q:  Does NEON have or plan on collecting RNA samples from soil or surfaces for microbe-focused collections? A: Not at the moment but it is possible things will change in the future. We recommend staying up to date via …

Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and …

National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at University of Florida and UCLA he has worked with a wide range of … with a zinc-mirror heme site ties heme availability to carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria Nature Communications …

… that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or … fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in plant roots),  M. elongata  doesn’t have as many …

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … may in turn impact the host communities and their roles in carbon and other nutrient cycles. “This is the first study … study from a JGI-led team uncovered giant viruses in the soil for the first time. The current study applied a …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature … inoviruses are in every major microbial habitat—including soil, water, and humans—around the world. By the numbers, …

… crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …