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For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a … fields. In a living cell, triplets of nucleotides, or codons, dictate which amino acids are assembled, which then … making proteins likely factors into why fungi have been so evolutionary and ecologically successful,” Wint said. “Fungi …

… could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … to core nitrogen metabolism, this team built a phylogenetic tree using bioinformatic software called FastTree …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to health, researchers have …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose … on sorghum, switchgrass and poplar, then monitored changes to the plants’ lignocellulose composition, as well …