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… Described as the “DOE Tree,” poplar is considered one of the  Flagship Plants for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II), the Molecular Foundry and the Joint …

… ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the … advantage of their joint metabolisms. Because, together, microbes can be used to create compounds more efficiently … have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied and Environmental …

… ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach … of doing a lot of unique things when it comes to energy cycles — turning biomass into things like ethanol or …

… A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was … approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to …

… impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … model aligns with several other studies on the potential effects of warming oceans on the microbial populations and the global carbon cycle. Tracking large-scale marine events such as The Blob …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … come from livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. There is another climate-minded … that the Hungate1000 helped spark some innovation in this space. To us, rumen microbes are awesome and this is just …

… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant …