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… , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene … to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary … three strains of  Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that … may not seem to amount to much, the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is actually a vital source of protein in many … trait. Traditionally beans have had a shelf-life about roughly 6-9 months before their color begins to …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey … of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the …

… On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other … workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid …

… and reinforced by the  Fort Lauderdale Agreement (2003), the JGI recognized the need to engage the community … data policies. Since completion of the HGP, the JGI has sustained its commitment to uploading sequence data generated on behalf of its user community to NCBI as well as to the  data portals that the JGI manages, …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … cycling takes place only on a microbial level. Previous studies focused on the Southern Ocean have found that in …

… With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more … Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but … like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital …

… 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 significant advances compared to the 2014 Eucalyptus grandis reference genome that has been … ID: 508017, Myburg, Wegrzyn, Borevitz) conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to … The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a … the discovery of more than 30,000 DGRs in this analysis, a 20-fold increase over what was previously known, throws open …

… insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material … boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the …

… Register here The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of … Several sessions will be devoted to training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by Natalia Ivanova and Rekha …

… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope …