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… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major part of …

… biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth … may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE … of a cre recombinase gene and mutually exclusive lox sites. Ultimately, this process enables researchers to …

… deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in … resist. The battle waged below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities … The Impact Altiarchaea are abundant and dominant populations in oxygen-poor environments without oxygen deep below …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living organisms as had been … trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment …

… expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of … scarf, striped hat, round-rimmed glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described … developed an algorithm that a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic …

… vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. These microscopic algae have managed to …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … research. Several species of Olpidium are obligate endoparasites of some common crops, such as lettuce and tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause much damage to the hosts, but they are …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the … of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes contribution of scholarship in the field of microbiology and …

To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. … is likely due to the fact that AT enzymes have undergone non-orthologous gene displacements, where they …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are … decompose in peatlands, and so carbon within their tissues doesn’t return to the atmosphere. Peat bogs also serve the …

University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science … the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user …