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… for a sustainable bioeconomy. Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, we provide advanced genomic …

Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can … the carbon away from methanogens. In The ISME Journal, a team led by researchers from the University of Konstanz and …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, then tested for heat and pH …

… specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M …

… — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. … could not explain the massive size of most fern genomes. A team of researchers put together a chromosomal genome …

… . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … the past 25 years, the JGI has hosted interns from a number of universities and organizations. From field research and …

Jan. 12 workshop: The Rapidly Expanding Genomics of Algae   With advances in genomics technologies, keen interest in the bioenergy and biotechnology potential of algae, and sampling of the length and breadth of algal diversity, the numbers of …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” … in soils and sediments and plant-microbial interactions in crops. He has been a PI or Co-PI on five user projects with …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the … are conserved across fungi.” Using multiDAP-seq, Nagy’s team is comparing five fungal species to answer questions …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of nutrients in these systems.” -Mike Wilkins, Colorado …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to … off.” Yet, after extensive study, Hatzenpicher and his team were able to definitively prove two other archaea …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … sediments and based on metabolic reconstructions, the team has two main hypotheses: the novel korarchaeon could …