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There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds … rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage …

… registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that … fungi help shape a forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference … complex genome whose evolutionary history and perennial lifecycle makes it important to study directly. The large and …

… 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial symbiosis. Further, the …