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… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with … sharing.  Recently, researchers have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA …

… vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny … temperatures characteristic for polar oceans. In this study, they’ve cracked open the genome of another polar … latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome data from the JGI. With multiple threads of …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking … nitrogen, a key ecosystem nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to … able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) …

… assembly to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.   The Science Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with … inherited from each parent. It also has 700-fold greater contiguity, meaning the genome is reconstructed in much …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … to harvest all the energy they can. The results in the study were enabled by a number of  in vitro and  in vivo … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US …