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… complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter threads in the mix. But in the Petri dish, the thin vermicelli-like threads floating …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry weight than without PM193  . By contrast, using a … communication between the plant and fungus. Discovering how microbes can influence plant physiology helps scientists …

… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a podcast about … product reports on the evolution of genome mining and microbes with Mohammad Alanjary and Tilmann Weber to be a …

… planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers around the … collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for … lipids can make up more than 90 percent of the microbe’s dry weight. In order to better harness these gobs of energy, …

… for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, which is not ideal for me keeping myself on my self-imposed schedule. So, we’ll have to … ecology community to be able to better predict how their microbes are interacting with each other from sequence …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how …