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In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) dubbed Margulisbacteria, … The research teams opted to collaborate on a single study, with Matheus Carnevali and Schulz sharing co-first …

… technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence … I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” In this study,  published in  Metabolic Engineering , a team of …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … order to do so is a resource-intensive process. Now, a new study shows how anaerobic fungi — the kind living in the … and alignment to the reference fungal  genome . The study’s pivotal NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) data, …

Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the  video below, captions are available) spotlighted the metabolomic analysis … Q: Can you give us an idea about the scale of an average study? How many samples are typically involved? How long … Data Analysis – Tips from Users page.  Q:  Is the metabolic study able to build a profile for a not very well studied …

… at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the … outline the questions they asked – and answered – in the study that recently appeared in the Proceedings of the … ecological and evolutionary consequences. A previous study conducted by our research team surveying the genomic …

Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant … Emerald Nash : What I’m working on here is an experimental study of root colonization by resident phages of a plant …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … maize. By deciphering the zealexin synthesis pathway, this study makes it possible to harness the protective function … maize, which has been largely overlooked, according to the study’s senior author Alisa Huffaker, a biologist at the …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. … able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have … (Berkeley Lab). All of the fungal genomes used in the study are available on the JGI fungal portal  MycoCosm . The …

Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total … were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered, most of … is typically observed, but to the “TACK” superphylum,” said study first author Bojk Berghuis. “This provided us with …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new … insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis … scientist at the JGI and Molecular Foundry, and the study’s senior author. In other proteins, two histidine …

… single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Using a single-cell screen, … their functional roles in their community. This study shows how the function-driven, single-cell screen can …