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… Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do so, these organisms … could become dials for tuning this symbiosis. “Those are great candidates for genetic engineering. Our hope is that …

… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last … Podcasts ,  Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts) Microbial ecologist and JGI user Trina McMahon has been … over 20 years in order to better understand how the freshwater ecosystem works. When she set out to analyze 500 …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental … Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense … CA. Banfield’s observations of the CRISPRs in her microbial sequences piqued Doudna’s interest. As Doudna noted in her …

… recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach … genomes directly from the environment and focuses on sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …

… kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost plant-microbe …