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… and salinity conditions, understanding their adaptations offers insights into microbial evolution, as well as how Antarctic … occur in response to viral infections and are important for virus-host interactions. Analysis of strain variation showed …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More …

… which affects a number of environments, including plants, soil, and the gut. To better understand the dynamics of this … Summary From digestive tracts to plant surfaces and soil, bacteria live in complex and varied conditions. A … were synthesized as codon optimized sequences and cloned into the Nano-lantern scaffold. Because the biosensors are …

… implications for plant health. It also provides further insight into the ecology and functional potential of the …

… “hook” of fluorescence-activated cell sorting to sort cells into several small pools, followed by whole genome … other than cellulose-degradation to tease out uncultivated microorganisms of interest from complex environmental …

… — a then-novel approach which allows scientists to study microorganisms that can’t be cultured by analyzing and then … vital to facilitate the assembly of small DNA fragments into larger and coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from these environmental …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. … this way, encouraging this symbiosis could improve the way soils store carbon from the atmosphere. For plants, boosting …

… plant metabolism across diverse ecosystems — from Antarctic soils and Icelandic hydrothermal systems to coastal wetlands … plant–microbe interactions that enhance crop resilience and soil health. Proposals are accepted year-round for this …

… including the tropics, tend to be dominated by prokaryotes (microorganisms without a defined nucleus). Colder waters … research cruises, they dipped their self-closing containers into sea water to sample algal communities along transects … across the global ocean. Instead, they sharply delineated into two big geographical groups: those in colder, polar …

… Alabama A&M University this fall for my master’s in plant soil science and my career focus is plant breeding. Ti’Yanna … is the area surrounding the roots of a plant in the soil. And I’m specifically working with a grass plant that’s …

… to past climate change will provide unprecedented insight into the mechanisms that perennial grasses have and will use … New findings from this line of research combined with past insights will allow the identification of potentially novel …

… large-scale assembly and analysis.   To put these efforts into perspective, we caught up with JGI staff, collaborators … microbes we expect to see, but also low-abundance microorganisms whose signal would have been filtered out as …