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… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new … Genomics Project led by the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility of Lawrence …

… We know all kinds of things about plastic – except, how to break it down for … can digest plastic. So researchers are taking a look at how these critters process plastic, to improve plastic …

… the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater …

… Gary Trubl, a virologist and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have …

… Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their … ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and … crops. But most available 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 be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in …

… some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — …

… a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant … alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable …

… it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, …