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… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   … them down.  Lignin is a structural component for the plant, like the brick-and-mortar of a building or the human … The authors acknowledge their funding sources: Office of Biological and …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple … fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a … relationships outside of the root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing …

… Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex … first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their structure. Scientists found both a gene likely important for sex determination and a shared genetic …

… Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, … is particularly interested in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. … BS, Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Master's, Biotechnology, University of Tokyo PhD, …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale Applications head Rex … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …

… TBK Reddy gives an overview of the JGI's Genomes OnLine Database and why curated metadata matters. …