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Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take … with their experiments in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2.      …

… type of mycorrhizal fungi, live within a plant’s root system. They form mutually beneficial relationships with … Soil microorganisms play a critical role in sequestering carbon and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and … the auspices of the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …

Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing … the oldest metabolisms, with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” Borrel and Gribaldo said in an … that “Washburn Hot Springs is a highly-reduced, suboxic system that may be analogous to environments found on early …

… different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold … loosely understood, leaving potential targets for crop engineering untouched. Research recently published in  The … as a faculty affiliate in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division of Lawrence Berkeley National …

… the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant … the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Nature Plants 10, 673–688 Vyshenska et al. 2023. A standardized quantitative … analysis strategy for stable isotope probing metagenomics. mSystems 8:e01280-22. Volland et al. 2022.   A …

… initiatives in bioenergy crop improvement and terrestrial carbon transformations.” The JGI’s large-scale call included … Tara Oceans Expeditions that took place between 2009 and 2013, the  Chaetoceros genus has been identified as the most … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

… information could be useful toward the DOE’s interest in harnessing the crop toward producing sustainable alternative … viruses, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic diversity …

… of XX. But, like some plant and songbird species, the system in shrub willow is flipped: females are heterogametic. To avoid confusion with the mammalian system, the sex chromosomes are called Z and W instead of X … by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31590821, 31561123001, 31500502, 41871044), National Key …

DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National … secondary users who made use of our data. We completed 39,870 projects in FY24 We generated 871 Terabases of … It centers our work on four strategic themes: Nutrient Cycling, Functional Diversity, Data and Connectivity and …

… and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

… it might make sense that honey bees have a more efficient microbiome to harvest all the energy they can. The … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

… underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. This summer, they worked …