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… finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … the outsized role the fungi play in digesting plant material in herbivore guts. A deeper dive into the genomes …

… JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further …     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and …

… various industrial uses ranging from timber to paper, biomaterials and biorefinery products. Given the market demand … using advanced technologies to reconstruct the complete sequences of individual chromosomes. The team describes the … hypothesizes the difference might not be due to repeated sequences, but rather the more accurate assembly of regions …

… was made possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then biochemically characterized by a team … event of a new infection, the microbes use the genetic information encoded in CRISPR sequences to target the virus and …

… conventional food crops. For that reason, its genome was sequenced by the JGI in 2009 and it is considered to be … diseases are well known to be partially due to the DNA sequence that makes up an individual’s genome. The genes of … in that set, implicated in AMF interactions, was dramatically reduced as a result of pre-flowering drought …

… the project. The story is reposted here in modified format; their conversation has been lightly edited and … Schmutz is the Plant Program Lead at the JGI. Sarah:  Why is a resource like this important to the field of plant … the gene function and add additional biological information. As I’ve said earlier, 16 to 56 percent of plant …