Systems for plant culture include a chamber featuring one or more walls enclosing a spatial volume internal to the chamber, where the one or more walls include a surface for supporting a plant within the enclosed spatial volume, a gas delivery apparatus with at least one gas source, a nutrient delivery apparatus with a reservoir, a sampling apparatus connected to a port formed in the one or more walls, and a controller configured so that during operation of the system, the controller activates the nutrient delivery apparatus to deliver an aqueous growth medium to the plant, and activates the gas delivery apparatus to deliver into the enclosed spatial volume a mixture of isotopically-substituted gases. Also provided are methods of use of the system for measuring nitrogen in a plant and for identifying microbes capable of providing fixed nitrogen to a plant.

Methods for increasing carbon-based chemical product yield in an organism by genetically modifying one or more genes involved in a stringent response and/or in a regulatory network, nonnaturally occurring organisms having increased carbon-based chemical product yield, and methods for use in production of carbon-based chemical products are provided.

The present disclosure relates to various different types of variants in E. coli coding and noncoding regions leading to enhanced lysine production for, e.g., supplements and nutraceuticals.

The present disclosure relates to various different types of variants in E. coli coding and noncoding regions leading to enhanced lysine production for, e.g., supplements and nutraceuticals.

The present disclosure relates to various different types of variants in E. coli coding and noncoding regions leading to enhanced lysine production for, e.g., supplements and nutraceuticals.

The present disclosure relates to various different types of variants in E. coli coding and noncoding regions leading to enhanced lysine production for, e.g., supplements and nutraceuticals.

Methods for increasing carbon-based chemical product yield in an organism by genetically modifying one or more genes involved in a stringent response and/or in a regulatory network, nonnaturally occurring organisms having increased carbon-based chemical product yield, and methods for use in production of carbon-based chemical products are provided.

Cells and cell lines are disclosed that are able to produce therapeutic proteins, antibodies, vectors, and viral vectors such as lentiviral vectors and adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors. The cells and/or cell lines can have mutations or deletions in either one or both of the endogenous di-hydrofolate reductase (DHFR/) or glutamine synthetase (GS/) genes such that DHFR and/or GS expression or function is substantially reduced or eliminated.