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… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global … to climate change and devastating fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years … through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene … all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is the head …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … microbial genomes from biofilm samples at the Richmond Mine in Iron Mountain, CA. Banfield’s observations of the CRISPRs in her microbial sequences piqued Doudna’s interest. As Doudna noted in her …

… Innovative technology from this biomanufacturing collaboration is available for licensing. The Science … associated. They focused on hydroxyapatite (HAp,) a biomineral with applications in orthopedics, oral care, plastic … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, … poplar genes associated with plant defense (e.g. jasmonic acid and salicylic acid). The team also observed that the …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome sequence resource of rumen microorganisms . Thanks to the … in themselves. For example, a few organisms originally sequenced in the Hungate1000 collection harbor enzymes that …

… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … genomes of uncultivated giant viruses from environmental sequences across the globe, then using these sequences to … Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly available metagenome datasets …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the …