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… The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around … form of another species, so the scientists had to use the genome itself.   Approximately 67 million years ago, the ancestor to eelgrass underwent a whole genome duplication event, doubling all of its chromosomes.  …

… The United States  is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce … yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio … Research (INRA)  proposed sequencing a reference genome for  P. pachyrhizi to develop better strategies to …

… You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a …

… This year’s list features 6,900 researchers working in 21 fields.  Congratulations to the  2022 Highly Cited … the JGI is sequencing thousands of bacterial and archaeal genomes from diverse branches of the Tree of Life.  Its … Huntemann, Nikos Kyrpides  and Simon Roux — features 600 genome sequences for Actinobacteria.  Woyke  was also one of …

… Learn more about PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative analysis tools developed by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a US Department of Energy Office of …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria …

… Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants … temperature oscillations throughout the day. At the Joint Genome Institute, Dr. Cole’s research focus has been on …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal … Biohub, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … and Verstraetearchaeota lineages. The archaeal genome was detected in samples collected by Stephen Quake’s …

… among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics for demonstrating “significant influence in their chosen field or fields … Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of these researchers were involved in, … team that combined field data with a reference switchgrass genome to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … year, the JGI team reported the first closed and finished genome derived from an uncultured bacterial single cell – a … oil plume from Deepwater Horizon oil spill led to a draft genome of the first deep-sea, oil-eating bacterium from a …

… A. Estrada-Graf, Nicole M. Fernandez; [Row 2]: Zachary Garvin, Chandan Kumar Gautam, Gareth Gillard, Audrey Goeckner, … N. Zepernick.    Each year, the JGI solicits novel research projects from PIs who have not led any previously accepted … including metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and genome assembly to investigate microbial and plant …

… Nandita is involved in developing new methods to improve genome recovery from single cells …