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… interact with their environment, potentially accelerating soil carbon loss. Orange ribbons mark the heated plots and … sequence for Eucalyptus grandis. Accessing recently burned soils in California and Colorado, Mike Wilkins of Colorado … State University and colleagues aim to understand how soil microbiomes in fire-adapted ecosystems respond to low …

… help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …

… to remove lignin and transform the remaining components into  biofuels and bioproducts. If anaerobic fungi could be … out how to create enzymes that break these components down into glucose. It’s that third component, lignin, that has … wasn’t quite accurate, and maybe anaerobic fungi living in soils or the guts of livestock were more capable than …

… sulfur compounds, and now we can see we can go beyond that into propanol, propylene, and even larger hydrocarbons that … Sciences (BES) programs, they were able to multiply the insights that each offers.  The work underscores how such inter-Facility …

… assembly. Integration of this type of “external mapping” into IMG is currently being revamped but we can already … offer long-read metatranscriptome? (for e.g. full 16S, RNA virus, etc) A:  Long-read metatranscriptome / RNA …

… elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In the event of a new infection, the … information encoded in CRISPR sequences to target the virus and release attack enzymes in the form of Cas enzymes to cut the DNA and disable the virus. In Science , a team led by researchers from the …

… elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or … of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and soil from Washington and Oregon. The cuttings included … team also observed that the plants instead put more energy into growth, noting they increased expression of genes …

… and genes that lead to increased lipid production. These insights into  Y. lipolytica biology and lipid metabolism furthers … abundant biomass carbohydrates — glucose and xylose — into fatty acids that could be used for renewable fuel. In …

… affect users and their access to technical capabilities JGI offers, as well as proposal review procedures and the …

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

… A GPU hackathon is a five-day coding event that offers participating teams the opportunity to either …