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A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan …

Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. This continues the series of interviews we recorded at the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Natural … made it onto our list is because we wanted to have diversity. And so we wanted a profile across that protein …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the … in turn affecting environmental and human health, energy production and agriculture. Understanding the compositions of …

… in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the number of … the team concluded, “we provide a global analysis of the diversity, distribution, and evolution of virophages.” Lead …

… for you here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of the real legends of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of … it took 15 to 18 years before we were able to convince the diversity of marine ecologists that they needed to consider …

… novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach … being able to distinguish which gene belongs to each individual microbial species within a community. Therefore, the …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … for multiple applications The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For … biofuels ), enhance plant health, cause diseases, and produce antibiotics. Still, the team estimates that genomic …