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… Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the …

… plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy … genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might …

… edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed …

… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its … Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how … Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a more sustainable, biobased economy. They conduct research at the Joint BioEnergy …

… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at … America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.       …

… bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah Bagby (Case Western Reserve University) and Simon Roux (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series from Sweden’s Stordalen Mire. …

… (https://data.jgi.doe.gov/) launched last year, it was only accessible through the plant portal  Phytozome . Now … users to more easily access public data sets through a common set of metadata. For Steve Wilson, JGI’s Systems Engineering group lead, the Data Portal …

… State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

… The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal … and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

… Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show … more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …