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… applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced …

… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant …

… grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods and poor soils. This is the first paper that describes sorghum’s … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The Impact Half a billion people consider sorghum a staple food … to determine what genes respond to drought conditions, and how these conditions impact the crop and its microbiome. For …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential … elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or … communication between the plant and fungus. Discovering how microbes can influence plant physiology helps scientists …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), shows methanogenesis is not limited to  Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to …