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… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  Citrus genus, which gives us lemons, kumquats, …

… 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 …

…   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 …

… The team has three subgroups: Synthetic Biology Lab : a user science group dedicated to user project design, assembly, and quality control Strain … Engineering Group : a research & development group and focused on new technologies and optimizing tools — including …

… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from … completeness and removal of contamination from the host organism. As reported in Nature Biotechnology , a team from …

… 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). …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its … machinery The Science To better understand how beneficial organisms (symbionts) are transmitted between host … and a part of the oil-producing Mucoromycotina group, about which little is known. The Cornell team cultivated and …

… at the 5th position on its carbon ring, or 5mC. In many organisms, 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate … the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may help the pathogens … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office …

… With increased lignin and iron, engineered poplar can be used to develop bioproducts for industrial applications. For example, lignin could be used for building materials such as cement or adhesives. … ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and is supported by the Office of Science of …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a … bacteria, millions of  microbes govern ecosystems. These organisms carry out important environmental processes like  …