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… of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to mimic an insect or a particular … Using a single-cell screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they tested … Directed Research and Development program (LDRD) entitled ‘Tackling microbial-mediated plant carbon …

… and technical writing while also making new connections with both researchers and other interns. At the end of the … Abdulqader Mentors: Andrei Steindorff, Robert Riley, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Kurt LaButti Project:  Prediction and Identification of Mitochondrial Plasmids from DNA Sequence Moitrish Majumdar Mentors: Bikash …

… plants don’t fully decompose in peatlands, and so carbon within their tissues doesn’t return to the atmosphere. Peat … kingdom. Specifically, researchers found that female plants within a species tended to weather pH stress from peatlands’ … variation when under those same environmental stressors — with some thriving and others struggling to survive. Given …

… a feedstock for biomass-based biofuel production. As seen with many commonly cultivated commercial crops such as … when switchgrass (and by extension similar taxa) are faced with pronounced environmental fluctuations. New findings from this line of research combined with past insights will allow the identification of …

… of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with younger, thinner ice means more fresh water — and less salt — near the surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s stress resistance … range of habitats — from brine pockets and melt pools, and within the water column. They are also the primary producers …

… Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Research Center, along with researchers from the Energy Biosciences Institute, the … Center for Biotechnology. Most plants are diploids with two copies of each chromosome, one inherited from each … contribute to novel traits. M. sinensis is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these …

… land and the atmosphere. Microbes living there can interact with chemical defenses of plants and influence nutrient … composition varied across both sites and host tree species, with geographic site exerting the stronger influence. … in Carolin Frank’s lab , worked on an aspect of the paper with her JGI mentor, Robert Bowers . She contributed to the …

… silent under standard laboratory conditions. Researchers with the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute … multiple bioactive compounds at once, including several with known antimicrobial and industrial relevance, along with many previously uncharacterized molecules. To …