A recent paper published in Natural Communications on Ceratopteris richardii marks the first published manuscript of a genome sequence generated through the JGI’s Open Green Genome Initiative. [Read More]
In 2018, the JGI helped assemble the Hungate1000 catalog. To date it is the single largest effort to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome sequence resource of rumen microorganisms. [Read More]
As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers whose talks shed light on how the JGI was established, all that it has contributed, and what they’re excited about in JGI’s future. [Read More]
The JGI hosted some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our 2022 Annual Meeting: Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, Assaf Vardi of the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Susan Wessler of UC Riverside. [Read More]
Maximizing soybean yield is critical to energy independence in the U.S. Not only does it pair with maize, the dominant source of bioethanol, in crop rotation, but soybean (Glycine max) also has the advantage of reducing the need for nitrogen fertilizer. These impressive environmental and energy advantages explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program. [Read More]
Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a JGI proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRAGE and CRISPR technologies. [Read More]
Since the JGI’s sequencing of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii — the tiny alga with a mighty impact — became available, those sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference genome is cited in roughly 10% of all since-released publications on green algae. [Read More]