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What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your … and a potential fuel for the future. But, to be competitive in the market, both energy policy and Miscanthus will need … biology and the economic terrain to help make the plant a viable alternative to fossil fuels. …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … compounds may also be involved in how the fungi metabolize plant biomass, which could inform how scientists can more … fungi. By growing extracts without oxygen in ruminant fluid — which smells terrible —they were able to isolate four …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be spotted with a … are stealth agents that can enter and exit through the cell membrane without lysing the bacterial host. They can …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like … samples sidesteps these challenges, since it doesn’t require this kind of lab culture. Beginning in the early 2000s …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … interdisciplinary delegation from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany with the aim of intensifying … range of topics related to structural biology, single cell and systems biology, omics, and big data science, …

… of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is triggered when nutrients are acquired from an … capability of morel mycelium to acquire carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such as plant litter and to incorporate the assimilated carbon into …

… to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled … Baldrian of the Czech Academy of Sciences first needed to build a detailed database on the denizens in the soil. While … suggest that fungi are breaking down plant fibers, like cellulose and lignin. Bacteria, on the other hand, appear to …

This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of … DOE JGI/University of California, Merced Genomics Distinguished Graduate Internship Program, Susannah Tringe and Axel … and, Lizhen Shi , a graduate student conducting independent studies in Zhong Wang’s group. …

… research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights … on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots.  …

Researchers from the JGI recognized for their “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the … work included investigating sphagnum moss and the role the plant’s sex plays in its resiliency, as well as a Nature Plants study identifying colonization patterns in eelgrass . …

Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new … data-driven science. This is a group of computational biologists, bioinformaticians, computer scientists and … in solving DOE’s most challenging problems. … PhD Cell Biology. Duke University MS Developmental Biology, …