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National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He … led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal … and lignocellulose degradation encoded in the genome sequence of  Schizophyllum commune . Nat Biotech.  2010; 28: …

… soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual … Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team … and others that preferred the hollows. Those genome sequences showed not only that the sex of a sphagnum plant …

… in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that … They were part of an ancient lineage of bacteria to migrate from oceans and colonize land. Terrestrial  Chloroflexota … to spring. These biodiversity hotspots harbor specialized microbial communities living in extreme conditions. The …