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… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two …

… that will help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of … of years evolving tactics against potential threats. “Because plants can’t run away, they’ve evolved these really … microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by microorganisms — out,” said JGI user/collaborator Michelle …

… model to study drought tolerance in perennial grasses using Panicum hallii (Hall’s panicgrass), by generating two … for developing methods for converting plant biomass into sustainable fuels for cars and jets. By studying a close … to switchgrass. Summary Rising global temperatures are causing extreme weather events, ranging from prolonged …

… 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,  …

… Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic expression – in which two or … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab and the Environmental … Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a DOE Office of Science user facility. The work was partly enabled by the …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and in the laboratory. “We are fortunate because the progenitor species of  Brachypodium hybridum are … de Zaragoza, one of the paper’s senior authors. “It offers us the possibility to explore genomically the whole complex …

… yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … the ocean; this affects the growth and survival of the microorganisms that live there.  A  Communications Biology … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is triggered when nutrients are … leaves and woods into the atmosphere, while increasing the organic matter and fertility of the soil. Morels (Morchella …

… particularly actinomycetes. His research activity is focused on developing and implementing new technologies and … Mouncey NJ. Comparative and pangenomic analysis of the genus Streptomyces. Sci Rep. 2022 Nov 7;12(1):18909. Otani H, … governs the principal sigma factor in Streptomyces griseus. Mol. Microbiol. 87, 1223-1236. PubMed …

… Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start … instructions for building and maintaining cells through the use of deep-sequencing technologies. The internship program …

… of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms organized into multiple interconnected layers. The … workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid …

… the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass spectrometry-based techniques, the … turnover, DNA-SIP for helping identify active micro-organisms within complex communities, and custom software …