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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … is a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of … I’m definitely seeing why this is such an important area to study. Okay, what’s your third story? DAN: The third story …
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… with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …
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… fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …
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… fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial … partners. We use a variety of genomics-powered tools to study this complexity, including single-cell and spatial … Plant microbiomes hold the amazing ability to influence plant development, fitness and …
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… and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. … culture. Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. … over 125,000 partial and complete viral genomes. That study multiplied the number of known viral genes by a factor …
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