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… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in plant roots),  M. elongata  doesn’t have as many …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … enzymes these fungi use to break down wood, and compares genetic diversity between cultivated and wild shiitake … raphanica and L boryana in the Americas. Tracing these phylogenetic relationships suggests that the shiitake …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … data portal Phytozome. The combination of field data and genetic information has allowed the research team to … environments, the 4X variety was more of a specialist. The genetic variation that allows the 8X variety to be a …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … One other finding that interested the authors was that an evolutionary analysis of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other … don’t have flagella, meaning they were lost in the evolutionary adaptation to marine environments. These …

Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters, has released their 2019 list of Highly … Genomics Lead Dan Rokhsar, Molecular Biology & Genetics Staff Data Scientist Asaf Salamov, Plant & Animal … Plant & Animal Science and Molecular Biology & Genetics categories Microbial Systems research group lead …

Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … Pathogens Shayna Bennett and mentor Robert Bowers, Mobile Genetic Elements and CRISPR Spacers in the Conifer Needle … : So while here at the JGI, I’ve been studying mobile genetic elements and CRISPR spacers in the conifer needle …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … to regain once it is lost. Depending on the exact phylogenetic placement of Olpidium, it may mean that the … This required an enormous amount of effort in collecting genetic material of Olpidium. They inoculated cucumber roots …

… ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the … domesticate some 60 strains, inserting into them a genetic sequence that acts as a “landing pad.” Mouncey adds, … genome-editing tools, and reporters.” JGI-developed genetic engineering technique CRAGE lands the cover of ACS …