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Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … land. Key gene groups involved in stress tolerance and multicellularity enabled plants to develop complex structures and …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, cumulatively called … little exception, organisms have figured out how to create enzymes that break these components down into glucose. It’s …

… entities that seek to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  …

… students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission … develop presentation skills as well as build their network in the field of genomics and scientific research. The topics … summer. The JGI-UC Merced internship program was founded in 2014 with the goal of inspiring students to embark on a …

The CSP Functional Genomics call is to enable users to perform state-of-the-art functional genomics research and to help them translate genomic information into biological function.  The emphasis is on …

This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in New Orleans and online. Register for the meeting … scientists access to multiple user facilities through a single research proposal: Maximize Your Research by …

Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the  video below, captions are available) spotlighted the metabolomic analysis … directly measure environmental or biological samples (like cell media or lake water) without doing a metabolite … themselves for example using GNPS. Q:  Since the enzymes are doing the heavy lifting to make the metabolites, …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. … saprotrophs in the forest. White rot can break down the cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin in plant cell walls, … For example, the number of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes such as ligninases and cellulases were much lower in …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a … of genomic DNA modifications (epigenome).  In  Nature Ecology & Evolution , a team led by Robert Schmitz at the …