Ensuring that people have access to sufficient and nutritious food is necessary for a healthy
life and the core tenet of food security. With the global population set to reach 9.8 billion by …

As the indispensable role of natural microbial communities in many aspects of life on Earth
is uncovered, the bottom-up engineering of synthetic microbial consortia with novel functions …

Genomic selection, enabled by whole genome prediction (WGP) methods, is revolutionizing
plant breeding. Existing WGP methods have been shown to deliver accurate predictions in …

Contamination of agricultural land and water by heavy metals due to rapid industrialization
and urbanization including various natural processes have become one of the major …

Although leaves have to accommodate markedly different metabolic flux patterns in the light
and the dark, models of leaf metabolism based on flux-balance analysis (FBA) have so far …

In the last decade, reconstruction and applications of genome-scale metabolic models have
greatly influenced the field of systems biology by providing a platform on which high …

In January 2014, an international meeting sponsored by the International Life Sciences
Institute/Health and Environmental Sciences Institute and the Canadian Food Inspection …

Diatoms are eukaryotic microalgae that contain genes from various sources, including
bacteria and the secondary endosymbiotic host. Due to this unique combination of genes …

The green microalga Chlorella vulgaris has been widely recognized as a promising
candidate for biofuel production due to its ability to store high lipid content and its natural …

Computational strain design protocols aim at the system-wide identification of intervention
strategies for the enhanced production of biochemicals in microorganisms. Existing …