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… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and … relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio Two special days occur in April: the 50th … from Ed Hall, an ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He’s part of a JGI-supported project studying …
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… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a model grass system for answers. Their work recently appeared in Nature … B. hybridum accessions produced infertile F1 descendants (first offspring of the parents), posing the question if they …
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… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and … led by Jennifer Doudna’s group at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, which is also affiliated with … the seminal Cas9 proteins cleave double-stranded DNA. Co-first author Lucas Harrington was a graduate student from …
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… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … however, Olpidium was unexpectedly grouped with non-flagellated terrestrial fungi, but not with the flagellated … revealed that the branches among Olpidium and the first few splits in the non-flagellated terrestrial fungi …
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… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving … addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for c hassis (or strain)-independent r ecombinase- a … Biology. (Wayne Keefe/Berkeley Lab) For example, the JGI first used CRAGE to engineer domesticated bacterial strains …
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… Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! … highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.” Less than 6,200 … gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. I-Min Chen , Natalia Ivanova , Nikos Kyrpides …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences described a novel technique to access … which remains unknown and uncultured in laboratories. Other firsts followed. The next year, the JGI team reported the …
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… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants … of how plants adapted to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. … a unique window into the adaptations that enabled the first land plants to transition to terrestrial life. These …
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… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable isotope …
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… Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes … take on certain functions at the forest floor. For the first time, they compared three different fungal guilds in a … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …
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