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… reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their rumen are highly capable of breaking … has partnered with researchers around the world to map out genomes of rumen microbes. In 2018, through a JGI Community … they called the Hungate1000, a catalog of 410 rumen microbe genomes. The project relied upon resources from laboratories …

Rumen microbes have the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans … paper in the journal Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists … coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from these environmental samples,” said Matthias …

… on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots.  …

… four letters represents an organism’s genetic code, or genome, which underlies physical features and functions. … bind quickly and efficiently in the genome by adding tagged transcription factors to a genomic DNA library. “It’s … species to answer questions about how they break down plant materials, which could be useful for industrial …