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… a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more carbon? Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these … They screened panels of hundreds of maize lines for genetic variation in the ability make zealexins, and harnessed …

… never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  Citrus genus, which gives us lemons, … caused an estimated $4 billion in losses. Currently, ninety percent of Florida groves are infected. To better …

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

… The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical … by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," …

… The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the Joint … of tools that leverage stable isotopes to measure carbon and nutrient flux, and identify microbes assimilating … labeled compounds. During this webinar, EMSL’s Mary Lipton and the JGI’s Rex Malmstrom provided background on the …

… complete genomes from varieties that diverged over a million years ago. The hallii variety thrives in desert environments, while the filipes variety is less drought tolerant and is found in river and coastal environments. The Impact The perennial grass switchgrass ( …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan …

… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi. The Impact Stable …

… RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the … RIViT-seq expand the known transcriptional regulatory network in bacteria, enabling the discovery of regulatory …