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… first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth … Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, along with researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … sequence. Analysis of these plant genome sequences also led researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in …

… Corymbia citriodora subspecies variegata genomes allowed researchers to study the conservation and evolution of the … genome, an international effort by a team that included researchers at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office … perspective. By using genomic database alignment tools, researchers searched for TPS genes in C. citriodora . They …

… in the engineered plants while a Molecular Foundry researcher provided insights into how the regulatory … Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, as part of the Quantitative Plant Science … and by the Joint BioEnergy Institute, one of the Bioenergy Research Centers of the US DOE, Office of Science, Office of …

… (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and breed cultivars for the next … understand how sex determination works in shrub willow, researchers investigated the structures of the sex … enough to have evolved multiple times independently. The researchers also found a gene likely responsible for sex …

… convert them into energy that is then stored. A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for … bioproducts. As a step toward the long-term goal, researchers are now able to automate and fabricate synthetic … chloroplasts. The artificial chloroplast platform allows researchers to mass produce identical droplets that serve as …

… (symbionts) are transmitted between host generations, researchers investigated the role that bacteria living … with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . Researchers found that endobacteria establishing control … key to this evolutionary transition. Using this model, researchers also generated the first transcriptomic dataset …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs … plant growth hormones. One other tidbit that caught the researchers’ attention is that the poplar cuttings had … sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the United States Department of Energy (DOE) …

… cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale … Continuing explorations into this unique environment, researchers from the University of Calgary and the U.S. … heterogeneity of uncultivated microbes will provide researchers the ability to capture the fine-scale variation …

… gut. To better understand the dynamics of this molecule, researchers developed the first chemiluminescent biosensors … a wider range of environments. This new technology enables researchers to directly measure cyclic di-GMP levels in … By building on a previously developed combined approach, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and …

… roughly 5-7,000 years ago and has been well-studied by many researchers for nearly five decades. In these frigid … the University of New South Wales, Australia, and included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … the bacteria needs to survive. In December, January and February, the polar region’s summer months, this study found …

… microbial mats in Yellowstone National Park over time, researchers have discovered and characterized a novel … Earth; the iron-oxide microbial mats at Yellowstone offer researchers an analog for studying early Earth conditions. … the polymerase chain reaction technology that enables researchers to generating thousands to millions of copies of …

… are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple microbiology and ‘omics … from environmental samples and cultivated microbes, researchers have been able to gain further insights about … offers a genetically-tractable model system that could help researchers better understand the factors controlling …