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… In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: … from grasses into other crops.  One grass they studied just happened to be the same species that covered World Cup …

… participants. Over the past two years, Myco-Ed has been used in 15 individual classrooms across the country, … become trainers for budding scientists and researchers.  Summary Myco-Ed was started to help expand limited … It’s a key problem to solve because fungi are very diverse organisms with potential biotechnology applications in a …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been  moved … one-day cleanups. During those days, they were asked to “KonMari” their spaces, a decluttering method focused on keeping …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or … microbe, tucked in the fungus’ tissue. If you’re a Marvel Comics fan, you might liken the symbiotic …

… The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then … in sequencing and analyzing uncultivated microbes. Summary The CRISPR-Cas system is an immune mechanism in …

… The Science By comparing genetic information from similar organisms, researchers have gained insights on why the dry rot ( Serpula lacrymans ) is so destructive in houses. A study involving six brown rot fungi reveals the … habitat, adapting to thrive in built environments. Summary Unlike white rots, brown rots break down only the …

… will help solve energy and environmental challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published in the journal Nature . … mycorrhizal fungus shifted the focus from looking at single organisms to applying a broader ecosystem perspective, …

… and animal cells, it shares nearly 7,000 genes with other organisms (a third of those shared by both humans and … production in other algae that may be more viable for sustainable biofuel production. The JGI published a partial … Centre for Scientific Research on the Chlamy pan-genome and Marina Cvetkovska of the University of Ottawa on the …

… of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is … leaves and woods into the atmosphere, while increasing the organic matter and fertility of the soil. Morels (Morchella …

… will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and … one . To identify so many genomes, JGI researcher Antonio Camargo developed a new pipeline for identifying viruses …

… single-cell genomics and metagenomics. They cited her “landmark” 2013 Nature paper , which uncovered nearly 30 major previously uncharted branches of the tree of life. A senior … Lab), Woyke currently serves as the interim deputy for JGI User Programs. Earlier this year, she was elected to the …

… between.” To find an explanation, his team tracked the thousands of bacterial and archaeal species using a DNA-based array developed at Berkeley Lab. Over the …