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… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene families involved in … , a project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science …

… role in enabling the frontiers of research related to DOE’s missions in bioenergy, carbon cycling and … drive innovations that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, … JGI also sustains a vibrant community of postdoctoral and early career researchers. …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … including agricultural staples and candidate bioenergy feedstock crops, are recent polyploids. Crop breeders have … Universidad de Zaragoza and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science …

… organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary across … in warmer waters, including the tropics, tend to be dominated by prokaryotes (microorganisms without a defined … species, including gray whales and humpbacks, migrate to feed in the polar regions. And shrimp dine on the algae that …

… approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to drought. …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux … , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for … diversity.  In 2021, he was among those selected by the DOE Office of Science as part of the Early Career Research …

… approaches to unravel functional capabilities of plants, microbes and microbial communities, global carbon … cycling, and biogeochemistry — questions of relevance to DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) … be considered if they are of relevance to bioenergy-related feedstock crops or model plants. Projects targeting marine …

… able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have … evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that feed on decaying plant matter (saprotrophs) have …