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Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, … is particularly interested in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. … BS, …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has now sequenced and assembled the genomes of these five cotton … insights on crop improvements at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene … could then use these proteins to recognize individual pathogens and pull them out, like fish on a fishing line, …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into … Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team … and others that preferred the hollows. Those genome sequences showed not only that the sex of a sphagnum plant …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple … fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a … relationships outside of the root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome sequence resource of rumen microorganisms . Thanks to the … rumen microbes are awesome and this is just another example why.” …

From left to right: [above] Emma Bell, Mallory Choudoir, Sneha Couvillion, Tobin Hammer, … our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why twice each year we look for novel research projects — …

Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop … (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  genome using samples … many parts of the country also helped the team understand why some switchgrass plants from the Northeast have traits …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 …