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… are handling specific nutrients, or what they're doing with those nutrients, and even how quickly. But there's a …

… role in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close … . “Common beans are a major societal crop for those with severely limited income,” McClean said. “Common bean is … America and Eastern Africa. For smallholder farmers — those with less than two hectares of land — common bean is often a …

… and math (STEM) fields. This summer, they worked with Zhong Wang’s and Tanja Woyke’s groups, respectively. … Internship (SULI) Program students. Sharon Cao worked with Zhong Wang while Karen Tolentino worked with Brachypodium researcher John Vogel. Other students …

… stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes with specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps … integrating computational and experimental approaches with the aim of eventually studying virus-host dynamics in …

… have developed a platform that mimics chloroplast function within a cell-sized system. The Impact Photosynthesis … fixing enzyme in nature. The library provided the Erb lab with enzymes that led to a previously reported synthetic … In the current study, the team combined the CETCH cycle with a microfluidics platform that mimics the metabolically …

… grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. Despite the low maintenance, it can … allowed the research team to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology. Switchgrass has a large polyploid … on two types of naturally occurring switchgrass, those with 4 copies of the genome (4X) and those with eight copies …

… two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees … down hemicellulose. The authors think this might have to do with the differences in lifestyle: honey bees need ample … and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US Department of Energy Joint Genome …

Zerbe of the University of California, Davis. “The work with JGI was one of the first things we actually started … blends of terpenoids, naturally occurring organic chemicals with a wide range of potential applications. Q&A from the … if it can be done.  After the technical review, proposals with feasibility notes go to peer review, which is very …