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… work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite as well. …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of … as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In this way, encouraging …

… and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new … our understanding of fungal diversity by sequencing genomes from across the fungal Tree of Life, but they also highlight … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

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

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … data sets of RNA sequences (metatranscriptomes) generated from diverse environmental samples around the world, … host. We’ve made all of that information fully free and openly available to the broader scientific community.” Uri …

… The soybean is a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped … threatens this important crop. Hear more about that work from researchers Gary Stacey (University of Missouri), Peter van Esse (The Sainsbury Laboratory) and …

… Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

… meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, industry, and government organizations for three days of scientific presentation, interactive panel discussions, …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that … so small, it’s possible flagella would be a liability in open water — requiring more energy for the bacteria to …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress … Settlement Biomedical Research Enhancement Funds as part of a startup grant of the University of Nebraska Lincoln, …

… Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is … as Adjunct Scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and as Associate Adjunct Professor at the …