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… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of fungi); another is a …
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… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock. The Science The fungus Mortierella … it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or as an endophyte, living … (ARBRE) (ANR-11-LABX 0002 01 to F. Martin), JGI Community sequencing program project (CSP570, DE-AC02-05CH11231), and …
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… for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user facilities—the Environmental … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …
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… The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise … gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid of two species, similar to a mule, but that is still able to …
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