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… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help … was performed under the JGI-EMSL Collaborative Science Initiative and used resources at the DOE Joint Genome …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science … revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins and related precursors into a bonanza of … sesquiterpenoids, National Science Foundation Plant-Biotic Interactions Program (grant no. 1758976 to E.S. and P.Z.) …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a … and environmental interests.  Summary As the planet has changed, so have plants. Curious about their ability to …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was … the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his …

… view of plant evolution and adaptation.    Understanding how genes are regulated is like deciphering the complex wiring behind a city’s power grid. Just as … advancement holds the potential to expand opportunities for bioenergy and bioengineering applications. “We worked …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of actinobacteria Streptomyces … The 500 species described within the group are responsible for roughly two-thirds of antibiotics, and a deeper … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in New Orleans and online. Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest … talk): “Wetland Restoration on Intensive Agricultural Lands Changes Nitrogen Cycling Microbial Communities and Reduces …

… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery … how these microbes respond and adapt to environmental changes. Summary Researchers have been utilizing … a team of researchers has been working on improving methods for isolating and characterizing entire microbial genomes …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a … to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses … in how carbon is processed and cycled in soils. Ultimately, changes in  soil carbon content can influence atmospheric …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was …

… A collaborative team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, Philip Benfey … University and Uwe Ohler at   Humboldt Universität zu Berlin   has developed an atlas that maps gene expression … nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  …