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… genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in …

… A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

… with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority …

… 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user … Nevada mountain range since 2014 to learn more about the microbial responses and feedbacks to warming through the …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of actinobacteria … and the focus of a  recent paper published in  Microbial Genomics .   “Studying actinomyces, especially … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and …

… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … of the JGI; and Scott Jackson of the University of Georgia sequenced and analyzed the genome of the common bean. That …