Search

… comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So … that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha …

Identifying and breeding varieties that have high productivity across a range of environments is becoming increasingly … of the common gardens. “Gardeners and farmers fully understand that when you move plants outside of their native habitat or cold …

WHEN: May 6-10, 2019 WHERE: JGI With DOE investments in graphical processing unit (GPU)-based high-performance computing resources, an …

Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two … encountered surprises, adopted new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens.  …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing … encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying … biomass, hardiness to cold, etc. — to its genes. The undertaking took shovels, trucks — and more than a decade.  …

The Joint Genome Institute's DNA Synthesis Platform capabilities support researchers exploring how to convert sequence … group dedicated to user project design, assembly, and quality control Strain Engineering Group : a research & …

… proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers whose work aligns with DOE missions .  Below find a list of researchers whose …

… team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich at the University of California, … Upon maturity, the cucumber roots were rinsed with cold water to stimulate the release of zoospores by Olpidium . … ranging from fungi, plants to bacteria. Back in 2011 when these genome and transcriptome data were generated, …

… show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The … onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. Understanding how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key … the foundation of this deep Earth ecosystem. For example, when certain viruses attack, their archaeal hosts release …

… than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce their own food and generate oxygen as a … Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries Melainabacteria … diverged from the bacterial tree before Cyanobacteria and its contemporaries. Margulisbacteria were named for Lynn …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a scientific journal is … Wint said. For Axel Visel, JGI Science Deputy and a co-founder of the internship program, this type of achievement is … of mathematics and bioinformatics. “I love data, and when you love something, you can’t help but share it with …

Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France … Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is triggered when nutrients are acquired from an external source.  The … the world continued to seek other ways to make morels fruit under artificial environments, a technique to supply …