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… for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're … that can be useful to multiple teams and analyses. This episode, Rex Malmstrom (JGI), and Roli Wilhelm (Purdue …

There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds that plants secrete through their roots, creating a lively zone called the rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore …

… appointments at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Antilles and a co-first author on the study, performed the 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify and classify the … interactions, because large sulfur bacteria have been shown to be hot spots for symbionts,” Woyke said. “Yet the …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential … partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … communication between the plant and fungus. Discovering how microbes can influence plant physiology helps scientists …

… we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … challenges. Switchgrass is a native, shrubby grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few … crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model …

Dr. Grigoriev joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his postdoctoral … analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program … by anaerobic fungi.  Nature Microbiol. 8(4):596-610. Nelson et al (2022) Wildfire-dependent changes in …