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Bacteria and Fungi Divvy Up the Work in Forest Floor
… to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and bacteria are more active in …
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Jane Grimwood Named HudsonAlpha Genomics Chair
Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 Nature paper announcing a high-quality reference …
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Frigoriflavimonas asaccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel psychrophilic esterase and protease producing bacterium isolated from Antarctica
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Four chromosome scale genomes and a pan-genome annotation to accelerate pecan tree breeding
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Complete genome sequence of Planctomyces brasiliensis type strain (DSM 5305T), phylogenomic analysis and reclassification of Planctomycetes including the descriptions of Gimesia gen. nov., Planctopirus gen. nov. and Rubinisphaera gen. nov. and emended
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Tracing the Evolution of Shiitake Mushrooms
… they often source their nutrients — the shii tree, a Japanese relative of the oak. These fungi are part of the genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and … 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. Within those samples, this study also tracks …
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Reclassification of the Clostridium clostridioforme and Clostridium sphenoides clades as Enterocloster gen. nov. and Lacrimispora gen. nov., including reclassification of 15 taxa.
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Novel spore-forming species exhibiting intrinsic resistance to third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins and description of Tigheibacillus jepli gen. nov., sp. nov.
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Teredinibacter haidensis sp. nov., Teredinibacter purpureus sp. nov. and Teredinibacter franksiae sp. nov., marine, cellulolytic endosymbiotic bacteria isolated from the gills of the wood-boring mollusc Bankia setacea (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) and emended
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Three Join the JGI User Executive Committee
Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Wilbanks of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users … another DOE user facility, she will leverage her understanding of user facility operations and expertise in …
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Pyrophosphate-free glycolysis in Clostridium thermocellum increases both thermodynamic driving force and ethanol titers
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A Step Toward Controlling Soybean Rust
The United States  is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel. … , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)  proposed sequencing a reference genome for  P. pachyrhizi to develop better strategies to counter soybean rust disease. …
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