Genetically engineered switchgrass does not change soil chemistry, microbiology, or carbon storage potential.
Global models may be underestimating net wetland methane emissions.
Understanding assembly principles may inspire new approaches for making valuable products.
Highest concentration and yield of valuable chemicals reported in industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Lignocellulose-degrading enzyme complexes could improve biofuel production.
Demonstrating the microfluidic-based, mini-metagenomics approach on samples from hot springs shows how scientists can delve into microbes that can’t be cultivated in a laboratory.
First complete picture of genetic variations in a natural algal population could help explain how environmental changes affect global carbon cycles.
The genetic material of Porphyra umbilicalis reveals the mechanisms by which it thrives in the stressful intertidal zone at the edge of the ocean.
Genome-wide rice studies yield first major, large-scale collection of mutations for grass model crops, vital to boosting biofuel production.
Specific modifications to fungi DNA may hold the secret to turning common plant degradation agents into biofuel producers
Neutrons provide the solution to nanoscale examination of living cell membrane and confirm the existence of lipid rafts.
Switchgrass cultivated during a year of severe drought inhibited microbial fermentation and resulting biofuel production.
