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… secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has historically been limited due to the lack of robust tools available …

… genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including … could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … as genomes sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described … a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … so thoroughly that they lyse the cell — a process called lytic infection. But some viruses are also able to …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms therefore …

The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published … did not. This is normally an arduous wet lab process. Typically, after incubating microbial communities with labeled …

A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of … Switchgrass has multiple naturally occurring ploidy levels, called cytotypes, across the species. These are primarily …

… school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … provides the only known reference microbiome data sets for the Loxahatchee Refuge,  was published in the journal  Environmental Microbiome . “Before JGI was involved, I was not sure we could even complete …

As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to … Gutierrez Huerta and Bryan Rangel Alvarez, both California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) students at UC Merced. …

JGI! They are among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics for demonstrating “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.” … the JGI whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year are: Igor Grigoriev Natalia …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling … soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in … at cellular scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules into a plant’s root cells, and both …