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Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that …

… never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  Citrus genus, which gives us lemons, … caused an estimated $4 billion in losses. Currently, ninety percent of Florida groves are infected. To better …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab), have taken stock of the … is a wake-up call to revive the art of hands-on microbiology and experimental validation.  Microbes run the … the estimated diversity of Bacteria and Archaea With phylogenetic diversity standing in as a representative measure of …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these … They screened panels of hundreds of maize lines for genetic variation in the ability make zealexins, and harnessed …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical … by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the … RIViT-seq expand the known transcriptional regulatory network in bacteria, enabling the discovery of regulatory …

… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi. The Impact Stable …