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… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play … across different ocean latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome data from the JGI. …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year … lab had previously collaborated with the JGI on a proposal using this approach through the Emerging Technologies …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … thus allowing them to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. … help researchers better understand related genes in more complex plants that could be applied toward DOE-relevant …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new … striving for sustainability in lab spaces as well as offices. These efforts dovetail into sustainability … even before moving to Berkeley, the JGI committed to using Stirling freezers to store samples, which use less …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better … , is recognized as a mutualist, where both species of organism benefit from association, but was predicted to … was a likely key to this evolutionary transition. Using this model, researchers also generated the first …

… The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including … (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director of the MPI …