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… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … and hemicellulose. While these two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized … carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team …

… The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, … published in Nature Microbiology , went a step further, using both DNA and messenger RNA (mRNA) sequencing to … year after the fire. They sampled soil across a variety of conditions: unburned, low, moderate and high-burn severity …

… The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Using a single-cell screen, they can now identify microbes … microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about the diversity …

… regulation is critical to ensuring genes vital for growth and survival across various environments are expressed when their functions are needed. Data yielded through RIViT-seq expand the known transcriptional … Hiroshi Otani. Both are members of the JGI’s Secondary Metabolite Science Program, which Mouncey leads. RIViT-seq …

… wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of … virtual events and technology enabled a fruitful experience for mentors and students alike. Tools like Slack, Google …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a … to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses … only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase protein …