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… down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break … UniProt, exist, are not specific enough for a microbial community like that from a temperate coniferous forest floor …
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… — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the … can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness … natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for the first …
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… The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports research programs for developing methods for converting plant biomass … of nearly a decade of work to develop genomic resources for drought tolerance in perennial grasses. The team … candidate bioenergy crop, switchgrass. Through the JGI’s Community Science Program , JGI sequenced and assembled …
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… to carbon cycling. The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses … may promote soil health. The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … second only to cellulose. Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase …
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