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… high-resolution and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she hopes to expand our understanding of the roles that viruses play in their ecosystems, particularly in …

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 … to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for …

… microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds that plants secrete through their roots, creating a lively … rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage pass. …

What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your garden and a potential fuel for … the economic terrain to help make the plant a viable alternative to fossil fuels. …

Find a series of webinars related to our Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes portal. …

Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away … carbon? Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

… understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and more. And eventually, their findings …

… 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 nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science … of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology …

When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the …

… user samples. His R&D work focuses on the development of new applications utilizing a variety of technologies to improve the JGI’s capabilities in the areas of metagenomics, …

Neha’s key role is to design, benchmark, and apply bioinformatics software to enable analysis and interpretation of genomic and metagenomic data for JGI’s user community. She also provides support for user …