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Community composition is vital to managing native grasslands amid climate and precipitation variations.
Genetic approaches will aid development of higher biomass-yielding, sustainable trees for bioenergy feedstocks.
“Master regulator” gene will facilitate management and breeding of trees better adapted to changing environments.
Better understanding could lead to more cost-effective production of cellulosic biofuels.
Understanding how iron minerals accelerate collaborative metabolism will expand insights into the global carbon cycle.
Study reports first significant alcohol production by an archaeon.
Advances in simulating biogeochemical processes in permafrost will improve predictions of potential impacts on climate.
Researchers use engineered bacteria to simplify biofuels production, potentially lowering cost.
Microbes often evolve and work together to thrive in no oxygen situations, hinting at how carbon and energy flow just below soils and sediments.
Findings could aid contaminant management efforts at former weapons production and industrial processing sites.
Discovery of a new enzyme system sheds further light on a microbe’s ability to efficiently break down inedible plant matter for conversion to biofuels and biobased chemicals.
New findings will help extend the lifetime of catalysts used to process bio-oils in liquid systems.
