Protoplast fusion in Bacillus species (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Protoplast fusion in Bacillus species

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ORNL scientists created a new microbial trait mapping process that improves on classical protoplast fusion techniques to identify the genes that trigger desirable genetic traits like improved biomass processing.

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Nathan Armistead/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy. Reprinted with the permission of Oxford University Press, publisher of Nucleic Acids Research.

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