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…   Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the … the tree of life, cultivation of new lineages and the function of candidate lineages in biogeochemical cycles and … centered on how to capture, define, quantify, and functionally characterize microbial diversity. The Symposium …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key … and multicellularity enabled plants to develop complex structures and adapt to changing environments — ultimately …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light … forest managers more avenues to bring forests back to full function. Foresters can transplant trees and soils, …