Lignin, a chief component of cell walls in plants, is naturally degraded in the soil. Identifying new microorganisms involved in this degradation can help develop novel lignin breakdown processes in ...
GERARDO TOLEDO, WAYNE GREEN, RICARDO A. GONZALEZ, LEIF CHRISTOFFERSEN, MIRCEA PODAR, HWAI W. CHANG, THOMAS HEMSCHEIDT, HENRY G. TRAPIDO-ROSENTHAL, JAY M. SHORT, ROBERT R. BIDIGARE, ERIC J. MATHUR, ...
A new study finds that microorganisms live in richly diverse and interdependent communities in high-temperature geothermal environments in the deep sea. By constructing genomes of 3,635 Bacteria and ...