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… The practices that support agriculture – such as efficiently using dwindling water resources and restoring and maintaining healthy soils – are at the heart of sustaining food and bioenergy security for a steadily growing … population. Anuvia Plant Nutrients , a small Florida business producing bio-based plant nutrition products that …

… You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum … were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — and literal — roots could play …

… highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often … are part of the genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and …

… Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

… gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA … of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia lipolytica to … furthers the U.S. Department of Energy’s goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the …

…   This highly hands-on workshop is designed to familiarize users with the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes … wealth of public microbiome sequence data and enables the user to analyze these data with existing bioinformatic …

… these bacteria evolved could help inform engineering microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. Summary Hot springs are … A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class within  Chloroflexota called  … (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported by the Office of Science of the …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … mining, empowering research collaborators to take on ambitious synthetic biology experiments. A recent special issue of … helped LanzaTech researchers tame gene expression in the organism Clostridium autoethanogenum. The microbe can …

… The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin … biomass production and bioproduct engineering. Summary That organisms make use of cellulose and hemicellulose is … ability to slowly break down lignin (think of a fallen, decomposing tree in the forest). Because oxygen is essential …

… those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things … collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre) and Bill Kelly (AgResearch). …