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Artistic interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill in gaps of knowledge about the microbes that play key roles in the Earth's microbiomes. (Rendered by Zosia Rostomian, Berkeley Lab)

November 9, 2020

Uncovering Novel Genomes from Earth’s Microbiomes

Expanding the known diversity of bacteria and archaea by 44%, the publicly available Genomes from Earth’s Microbiomes (GEM) catalog generated from environmental samples around the world results from a collaboration involving more than 200 scientists, and JGI and KBase researchers. [Read More]

Scanning electron micrographs of diverse diatoms. (Credits: Diana Sarno, Marina Montresor, Nicole Poulsen, Gerhard Dieckmann)

October 8, 2020

2021 JGI Proposal Call Brings New Investigators into Community Science Program

For the first time, 63 percent of the 27 accepted annual large-scale CSP proposals come from investigators who have not previously been a principal investigator on an approved JGI proposal. [Read More]

Green millet (Setaria viridis) plant collected in the wild. (Courtesy of the Kellogg lab)

October 5, 2020

Shattering Expectations: Novel Seed Dispersal Gene Found in Green Millet

For the first time in wild populations, researchers have identified a gene in green millet related seed dispersal. [Read More]

Brachypodium distachyon, the model species for temperate cereals and biofuel crop grasses with a growing pangenome of one hundred genomes. Spain: Huesca, Ibieca, San Miguel de Foces. (Photography credits: Pilar Catalán)

August 25, 2020

The More the Merrier: Making the Case for Plant Pan-genomes

Researchers relied on a model grass system and pan-genomes to learn the origins, evolution and development of plant polyploids. [Read More]