At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers in the Microbial Ecology and Physiology group in the Biosciences Division have developed designer probes that identify microbes that carry the genes for mercury methylation.
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have released the largest-ever single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) dataset of genetic variations in poplar trees, information useful to plant scientists
Genome editing with site-specific nucleases has become a powerful tool for functional characterization of plant genes and genetic improvement of agricultural crops.
In order to understand and engineer complex traits, as photosynthesis biodesign, molecular cloning tools for flexible, efficient and reliable assembling of multigene constructs from smaller DNA parts are required.
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center are looking beyond the usual suspects in the search for microbes that can efficiently break down inedible plant matter for conversion to biofuels.
Another barrier to commercially viable biofuels from sources other than corn has fallen with the engineering of a microbe that improves isobutanol yields by a factor of 10.
The invention provides a genetic mechanism for the reduction of lignin biosynthesis while increasing concentration of desirable flavonoids.
Viruses are tiny—merely millionths of a millimeter in diameter—but what they lack in size, they make up in quantity.
Rainy-day weather maps on any news channel or website spatially show the distribution of clouds and rain across the region. Environmental researchers need to distinguish particular gases and map their distributions in a manner similar to such a map.
Environmental scientists can more efficiently detect genes required to convert mercury in the environment into more toxic methylmercury with molecular probes developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.