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… It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose that eventually yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to do so is a … (Neocallimastix californiae) on sorghum, switchgrass and poplar, then monitored changes to the plants’ lignocellulose … as well as degradation products that accumulated as the fungus did its work.  The UC Santa Barbara team worked with …

… Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by … to improve the industrial production of sustainable biofuels and bioproducts. Filamentous fungi are also being used … multiple models and their close relatives across the fungal tree of life, enriching the work being done as part of …

… for User Science calls. These documents have been shared with permission from the PIs who drafted them.  … Sphagnum microbiome genetic interactions for improved growth at elevated temperatures … Characterization of simplified soil communities with high and low carbon use efficiency across differing …

… livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason … the microbes that live there can drive solutions into stemming methane-emissions as well as efficient engineering of biofuels. Since 2010, the JGI has partnered with researchers …

… production. A reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been  published in  Nature by an international … scale sustainable sugarcane conversion technologies for  biofuels and other bioproducts. Finally, understanding how … that durable resistance to brown rust disease caused by the fungus,  Puccinia melanocephala . This plant pathogen used …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running time-series study … most months each year, Ace Lake is covered in thick ice, with a combination of marine and freshwater below. This …

… Program (CSP) provides the scientific community at large with access to high-throughput sequencing, synthesis, and … order by the reviewers. The ranked proposal list, along with a recommendation from JGI management, is then forwarded … scientific and technical staff negotiate proposal details with the PI and proposing team. The work plan is formalized …

… displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to … ice. One important algae-eater that could be affected by warming waters and shifting algal communities is krill — an … carbon dioxide (CO2), produced from the burning of fossil fuels, is what’s causing the ocean surface temperature to …

… First and foremost, our interview this week is with Professor Brian Bachmann from Vanderbilt University’s … and I are old friends and colleagues, having both graduated with our PhDs from Craig Townsend’s lab at Johns Hopkins. … Prodcast. Please take a second to join me in mentally welcoming Natural Prodcast’s new co-host, another old friend of …