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A Shrubbier Version of Rubber
… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea … guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. …
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Microbial co-habitation and lateral gene transfer: what transposases can tell us
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Novel and Emerging Capabilities that Can Provide a Holistic Understanding of the Plant Root Microbiome
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Natural soil microbiome variation affects spring foliar phenology with consequences for plant productivity and climate‐driven range shifts
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Nitrogen fixation in Pampinifervens, a new species-rich genus of Aquificaceae that inhabits a wide pH range in terrestrial hot springs
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Synthetic Biology Informatics Group
… develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software … and associated tools, which track samples through the JGI’s Synthetic Biology pipeline as well as provide process …
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Exploring the roles of microbes in facilitating plant adaptation to climate change
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Weakened resilience of benthic microbial communities in the face of climate change
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Microbes in thawing permafrost: the unknown variable in the climate change equation
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Host genotype controls ecological change in the leaf fungal microbiome
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JGIota: The Algae Nicknamed ‘Chlamy’
… Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …
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Genome-Resolved Metagenomic Insights into Massive Seasonal Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea Blooms in San Francisco Bay
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