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… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical … deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions they’re …

… Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the … is published in the same issue of Nature Microbiology . Their study focuses on the discovery of new populations …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking … Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. … and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from their soil samples. This gene expression dataset was …

… in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and Igor … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on … to acquire carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such as plant litter and to incorporate the assimilated …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … into many products; giving scientists a bigger bang for their buck. The research team reports that transferring just … AFRI (1758976 to A.H. and E.S.) for sesquiterpenoids, National Science Foundation Plant-Biotic Interactions Program …

… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science … lead to sustainable pathways for making high-value bioproducts including biofuels. In addition, the team says that … systems, expanding the technologies available for other JGI users outside the realm of bioenergy optimization. …

… On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online … vector representations of proteins in order to conduct more efficient protein sequence alignments. He also aims …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with … plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many genes after such events, returning their genomes to a diploid state while …