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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … (a third of those shared by both humans and flowering plants). Its genome also contains hundreds of genes uniquely … and published in the journal Science . At the time, the project was co-led by Daniel Rokhsar, head of the JGI’s …

… second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate … sequences assembled as part of its 1000 Fungal Genomes Project . To map microbial activity, Baldrian’s team … four specific habitats within the forest floor: the leaf litter on top of the soil, the roots of the trees, the …

… other JGI-relevant content on social media. She is also involved in the JGI’s community outreach efforts. Ms. Ballon has a … UC Managing Implicit Bias Certification 2020-present, Project Management Professional (PMP) Credential Graduate …

… makes up an individual’s genome. The genes of sorghum plants are likely responsible for the crop’s ability to … in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of Biological and … under three watering conditions, and then collected root, leaf and rhizosphere (soil surrounding the root) samples …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky … Laboratory, have collaborated with global researchers on projects related to understanding how the interactions … such as analytical tools and data repositories to two projects funded through the National Institutes of Health’s …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … after the JGI was established to work on the Human Genome Project in 1997. She was a group lead at Stanford Human … of Impact.     Notable large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood …

Community Science Program gives researchers access to all kinds of sequencing, ‘omics and bioinformatics capabilities — … stage, anywhere in the world, for free. We accept new projects related to energy and the environment several times … from Tanja Woyke, who runs user programs at the JGI, and project manager Miranda Harmon-Smith, who helps shepherd CSP …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … of the challenges of developing alternative fuels from plants is the high cost and resource requirements of … in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — …

… over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them back to the lab. The weedy grass was … Eurasia. The team also identified a gene associated with leaf angle, which determines how much sunlight leaves can … JGI group has been wonderful to collaborate with, and this [project] wouldn’t have been possible without their …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … plant lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) …

The United States  is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce … crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio , …