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… In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to bring students … on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. They also took part in many enriching workshops …

… The focus of this group, in recent years, has been to bring … The developed strains represent an additional phase of user-accessible project types, in which DNA-based molecules can be …

… FY2025 Spending Profile The JGI is funded primarily by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), a program …

… campus. Organized every two years since 2018, the goal of this symposium is to bring together a “Viral Ecogenomics” … uncultivated viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore … of virus-host interactions and phage-based technologies for microbiome manipulation, the VEGA symposium represents a …

… have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied and Environmental Microbiology , the researchers engineered root bacteria  Pseudomonas  and Ralstonia with enzymes that … these engineered bacteria were used with the model plant  Arabidopsis,  the plants grew better than when they were …

… by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns Tamyra Long and Zyiah Mikes … to study the effects of  Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. This year, however, there was a new aspect to …

… Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes … from that decay, and deliver those nutrients to tree roots and soil. These fungi help shape a forest’s ecology. … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …