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… but is not well understood in fungi. A team of researchers reported on the largest analysis of 5mC distribution across … the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may … of life, they tracked the evolution of 5mC pathways across 528 species. The researchers found that unlike most flowering …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is triggered when … assimilated carbon into the soil, reducing the amount of CO2 emissions from decaying leaves and woods into the …

… yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… 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 bee’s ileum, a structure analogous to the human small intestine; and  Bifidobacterium,  …

The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin … component for the plant, like the brick-and-mortar of a building or the human skeleton. It’s more complex, and … Research of the U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-SC0020420 (MAO), Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … and removal of contamination from the host organism. As reported in Nature Biotechnology , a team from the U.S. … suite, as well as sequences from the Global Ocean Virome 2.0 dataset based on open ocean samples. CheckV identified a …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years after the JGI united … after countless generations of sequencing platforms (up to 120 sequencing machines at maximum) maintained by a workforce …

… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … be applied to biotechnology and medicine. A more robust understanding of these microbial communities could lead … funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants OCE-0728391, OCE-0937404, OCE-1558795 to A-L.R, and OCE-2049478 …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two … Their partnership is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those … and archaeal cells — and detected the virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then …

… genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … the planet’s nutrient cycles and are potentially of use in fields ranging from agriculture to biotechnology and … User Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was supported in part by a Natural …