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… The practices that support agriculture – such as efficiently using dwindling water resources and restoring and maintaining healthy soils – are at the heart of sustaining food and bioenergy security for a steadily growing … population. Anuvia Plant Nutrients , a small Florida business producing bio-based plant nutrition products that …

… You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum … were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — and literal — roots could play …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study microorganisms. Because microorganisms live in complex …

… Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

… sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part of the … of RIViT-seq to other transcription factors and even other organisms can fuel a deeper understanding of these …

…   This highly hands-on workshop is designed to familiarize users with the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes … wealth of public microbiome sequence data and enables the user to analyze these data with existing bioinformatic …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … mining, empowering research collaborators to take on ambitious synthetic biology experiments. A recent special issue of … helped LanzaTech researchers tame gene expression in the organism Clostridium autoethanogenum. The microbe can …

… those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things … collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre) and Bill Kelly (AgResearch). …

… that will help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of … of years evolving tactics against potential threats. “Because plants can’t run away, they’ve evolved these really … microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by microorganisms — out,” said JGI user/collaborator Michelle …

… plant portal  Phytozome . Now the portal offers a way for users to more easily access public data sets through a … the Data Portal reflects a structural shift in data access. Users were previously limited to accessing data sets within … current Data Restriction Policy requires that users know about the FY Funding Year, and the publication status in …

… Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic expression – in which two or … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab and the Environmental … Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a DOE Office of Science user facility. The work was partly enabled by the …

… gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA … of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia lipolytica to … furthers the U.S. Department of Energy’s goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the …