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Learn more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes and multi-omics datasets, equipped with interactive web-based tools for comparative genomics and community annotation. …

Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate … impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … Atlantic, North Pacific and South Pacific fisheries, because of eukaryotic phytoplankton — not prokaryotes,” said … and stark the biogeographic boundary is between them. The data is somewhat beautiful in that regard,” said Andy Allen, …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … in marginal lands and with minimal resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be … (grant agreement no. 101001675). … Zygnema on PhycoCosm … Dataset …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata … Interactions . The results were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia lipolytica to …

… write reports, and publish first-author papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri … Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …