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Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain … crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … 27, 2021 in  Nature , the team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha …

Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … to map the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach … of functional diversity as well.”  Researchers from Harvard University, Indiana University. University of Crete …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I wanted to tell … this week is with Professor Brian Bachmann from Vanderbilt University’s Chemistry Department, where he is the PI of the …

In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students share how their … Tringe Shari Larsen and mentor Robert M. Bowers Nathaniel Brown and mentor Frederik Schulz Daravuth Cheam and mentors … And also specifically, it sparked my interest in bioformatics, so that’s what I’m gonna take with me to the …

The IMG group owns and maintains integral components of JGI’s production workflow, and is responsible for the annotation and …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their … during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come … growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … noted David Stelly, another study co-author at Texas A&M University. “This report establishes new opportunities in …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … Grant from the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California Santa Barbara. S.C.B. was partially …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple … hemicellulose, and lignin in plant cell walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use cellulose. … (INRAE), Hungary’s Biological Research Centre, Clark University, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … lignin.  Researchers led by Michelle O’Malley’s lab at the University of California at Santa Barbara  recently …