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… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a … Applying this method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria …

… Most species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple … the highly polyploid sugarcane, an international team of researchers has successfully assembled a first monoploid … of the world’s sugar, which is of interest to bioenergy researchers who want to develop sustainable alternative …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.   … plant growth hormones. One other tidbit that caught the researchers’ attention is that the poplar cuttings had … sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the United States Department of Energy (DOE) …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute … early collaborations that could help crop breeders and researchers predict how crops and model organisms may … he can use what they’ve developed here to further future research and answer complex questions. …

… Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science … eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants , was … and Portugal. In order to develop a timeline like this, researchers would normally craft a genetic clock based on …

… natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth … Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, along with researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and training experience funded by a DOE training … the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns Tamyra Long and Zyiah Mikes worked with mentors Yi Zhai and John …

… habitat. The Science By comparing genetic information from similar organisms, researchers have gained insights on why the dry rot ( … aggressive capacity to damage the wood in homes, bioenergy researchers have been interested in harnessing the brown rot … This research was supported by the University of Oslo and …

… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix … (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and breed cultivars for the next … understand how sex determination works in shrub willow, researchers investigated the structures of the sex …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive … (symbionts) are transmitted between host generations, researchers investigated the role that bacteria living … with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . Researchers found that endobacteria establishing control …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … roughly 5-7,000 years ago and has been well-studied by many researchers for nearly five decades. In these frigid … the University of New South Wales, Australia, and included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a … genomes, but is not well understood in fungi. A team of researchers reported on the largest analysis of 5mC … the role of transposons and 5mC in fungi could help researchers find ways to protect poplar and other crops …