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… a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the … this may be the first publicly available, river-focused microbial resource that provides information at multiple … and maintaining the health of these systems, these communities remain understudied. Through the JGI’s Community …

Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing … issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained … for the anaerobic oxidation of methane, a subject of great interest in environmental and evolutionary …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less … symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to … could become dials for tuning this symbiosis. “Those are great candidates for genetic engineering. Our hope is that …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less … symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to … could become dials for tuning this symbiosis. “Those are great candidates for genetic engineering. Our hope is that …

More importantly, when faced with a veritable buffet of carbon sources, these fungi detect which complex chains are … the gene regulatory networks as they responded to available carbon sources, which ranged from simple sugars to plant … factors to better understand how nutrients are acquired and carbon is metabolized in filamentous fungi. The work also …