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… clues to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably … kumquats, limes, pomelos, mandarins, sweet oranges, and more. Unlike citrus, trifoliate orange ripens only bitter, intensely sour fruit. Yet this plant, native to China and now disseminated around the …

… brands couldn’t exist without cocoa.  But today the plant is under threat due to climate change and devastating … infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest … some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… protocols provided by JGI and the JGI user community below for DNA preparation tools, high molecular-weight DNA … Tips for High Molecular Weight DNA extraction: …

… viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the diversity for large and giant viruses offered the researchers insights … other nutrient cycles. “This is the first study to take a more global look at giant viruses by capturing genomes of … with amoeba or with their hosts, though metagenomics is now making it possible to seek out and characterize uncultivated …

… Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project … and led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the …

… material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from … genomes are critical to serve as phylogenetic anchors for metagenomes studies.  While uncovering the metabolic … as purely based on annotation may not be sufficient. A more recent effort in the Woyke lab is therefore focused on …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … Collaborative’s EDGE platform. The Impact In order to gain more insights into Earth’s ecosystems, researchers must … Resource (IMG/VR) , now with more than 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the first version of …

… in early fungi and discovered genes that are critical for this process. The Impact In the absence of the … with the addiction model of mutualism evolution; in this case, the endobacteria control the expression of ras2-1 , a gene crucial to reproductive development, making the fungus reliant on the continued presence of the …

… leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications. … diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers around the world have … roles in both the carbon and nitrogen cycles, break down plant mass (think biofuels ), enhance plant health, cause …

… leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications. … catalog, this work results from a collaboration involving more than 200 scientists, researchers at the U.S. Department … deeper understanding of the data and enhancing the value by making data publicly available. To acknowledge the efforts …

… The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in … metabolites and associated genes are great resources for bioremediation, new agricultural applications or …