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… it paves the way for dissection of additional traits, in fungi and beyond. …

… may in turn impact the host communities and their roles in carbon and other nutrient cycles. “This is the first study to take a more global look …

… an Aspergillus fungal subgroup, section Nigri. Aspergillus fungi play important roles in areas ranging from industrial …

… users, which include projects looking at wildfire impacts, carbon cycling, and the microbial dynamics in freshwater …

… The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in …

… environments, actinobacteria play roles in both the carbon and nitrogen cycles, break down plant mass (think biofuels ), enhance …

… Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing … geothermal pool contains high levels of sulfur, methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Inskeep, a longtime JGI …

… with smaller genomes, such as bacteria and certain fungi. Scaling the technology’s availability to users is a … generalizable method,” Baumgart said. “We’ve done it in fungi, plants, bacteria and archaea. It works on basically …

… called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. These microscopic algae have managed …

… Lab led to the identification of key microbial culprits in carbon fixation in the dark ocean. Combining single cell …

… Clostridium autoethanogenum. The microbe can utilize carbon oxides, including the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, to make valuable chemicals, such as ethanol … a superfamily of enzymes found only in microbes, which make carbon-carbon bonds. This ability is attractive as an …

… to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, …