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Calculating the Costs of Multiple Switchgrass Gene Copies
… team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … could be generating these observed patterns. As many other plant species have natural cytotype variation, we also hoped … to address long-standing evolutionary ecological hypotheses about how C4 perennial grasses like switchgrass respond to …
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Help from Citrus’ Bitter, Hardier Cousin
… disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of … orange ripens only bitter, intensely sour fruit. Yet this plant, native to China and now disseminated around the … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …
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Cultivating Symbiotic Antarctic Microbes
… ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental … researchers have been able to gain further insights about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, experimentally demonstrated that …
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Inspiring STEM Careers Through a Hands-on Everglades Microbiome Study
… peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches … to apply the latest molecular techniques to learn more about the microbial communities in the Arthur R. Marshall … reached  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh , who heads the  Metagenome Program . “After discussing the project with him, I was …
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CreA-mediated repression of gene expression occurs at low monosaccharide levels during fungal plant biomass conversion in a time and substrate dependent manner
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Integrative visual omics of the white-rot fungus Polyporus brumalis exposes the biotechnological potential of its oxidative enzymes for delignifying raw plant biomass
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Complete Genome Sequences for the Anaerobic, Extremely Thermophilic Plant Biomass-Degrading Bacteria Caldicellulosiruptor hydrothermalis, Caldicellulosiruptor kristjanssonii, Caldicellulosiruptor kronotskyensis, Caldicellulosiruptor owensensis, and
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The Mutualist Laccaria bicolor Expresses a Core Gene Regulon During the Colonization of Diverse Host Plants and a Variable Regulon to Counteract Host-Specific Defenses.
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The Genomes of the Fungal Plant Pathogens Cladosporium fulvum and Dothistroma septosporum Reveal Adaptation to Different Hosts and Lifestyles But Also Signatures of Common Ancestry
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The CC–NB–LRR protein BSR1 from Brachypodium confers resistance to Barley stripe mosaic virus in gramineous plants by recognising TGB1 movement protein
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Tracing the Evolution of Shiitake Mushrooms
… highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name … and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. … sequencing were enabled by the Community Science Program (CSP) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …
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Boosting Small Molecule Production in Super “Soup”
… to keep processes running smoothly. As  reported August 26, 2021, in  Nature Communications , researchers led by … through the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … and so one of the things that I think is so special about this collaboration is that we’re doing work in yeast, …
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