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Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of … growth rates, decomposition, and carbon sequestration. Researchers wanted to better understand how sphagnum adapts … for protecting these ecosystems. … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US …

New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his … Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start … a presentation on their data to a large group of DOE JGI researchers at the end of their internships, and are …

… plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy … genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. … like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever …

… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at … but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to … America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley … – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But …

Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a …