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Trubl, a virologist and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to … findings could help us grow better crops, with less impact on our planet. …

Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the …

… plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy … genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at … but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to … America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley … – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. …

American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But …

Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a …

The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal … thrive, and even support entire ecosystems. Hear from researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Emily St. John, Gilberto … and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when …