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… as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In this way, encouraging … this symbiosis could improve the way soils store carbon from the atmosphere. For plants, boosting this relationship … spatial transcriptomics data captured molecular information from both plant cells and fungal cells. “Because this …

… processes for the first time. By collecting data from 27 different poplar ( Populus trichocarpa ) trees, as … on the rhizosphere and interactions between the trees, microbes and soil chemistry offers insights into how these … metagenomics, scientists were able to analyze the DNA of microbes living around the tree roots in the rhizosphere. …

… ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria … foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these sequences are …

… that the project had already received enthusiastic support from the JGI Director, Nigel Mouncey. Jonathan credits his … samples to the JGI for sequencing.  While JGI processed, sequenced, and analyzed the soil samples, the JGI offered 7 … and Proteobacteria to be the most common phyla of bacteria sequenced from the metagenomic soil samples from the four …

… nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared … autonomy; they can be isolated and grown separately from each other. A possible explanation, according to the … an intramural seed grant (IGSP 2008001) to DA, FL, and FD from the Duke Institute of Genomic Sciences and Policy (for …