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… challenges.   Scanning the California oak woodlands from the air, large swaths of the bleached, skeletal remains … and it has served as just that on a catastrophic scale from Baja California north into Oregon and beyond. The … the US Department of Energy Office of Science, as well as from the US Department of Agriculture and the National …

… return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By … team of researchers collected soil samples from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, … JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils across different burn severities look like …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … Department of Energy’s goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the … of Science User Facility. Y. lipolytica is a tantalizing microbial factory, capable of turning abundant biomass …

… changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the … for short — helps plants that have it lose less water in a hot, dry environment. Figuring out how plants evolved to … Photosynthesis is what allows plants to make their own food from light and air — in particular, the part of the air …

… opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost …