Optimal Foraging: How Soil Microbes Adapt to Nutrient Constraints
How microbial communities adjust to nutrient-poor soils at the genomic and proteomic level gives scientists insights into land use.
How microbial communities adjust to nutrient-poor soils at the genomic and proteomic level gives scientists insights into land use.
A combined experimental and modeling approach contributes to understanding small proteins with potential use in industrial, therapeutic applications.
Analyses reveal how a microbe breaks down lignin, providing a better understanding useful to making biofuels.
Analyses of natural communities forming soil crusts agree with laboratory studies of isolated microbe-metabolite relationships.
Evidence suggests that biorefineries can accept various feedstocks without negatively impacting the amount of ethanol produced per acre.
A large-scale soil project uncovered genetic information from bacteria with the capacity to make specialized molecules that could lead to new pharmaceuticals.
Experimental warming treatments show how peatland forests may respond to future environmental change.
Collaborative, open-source software and data platform accelerates systems biology research.
Research offers new insights for maximizing sugar production in biofuel crops.
Model predicts smaller decrease in total corn yields than previous estimates.
Systems biology leads the way to exascale computing on Summit supercomputer.
New class of solvents breaks down plant biomass into sugars for biofuels and bioproducts in a closed-loop biorefinery concept.