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… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … these little makers rely on to survive. Now, new research enabled by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … production to confirm that indeed, they were. The work was enabled in part by working with both the JGI and EMSL. New …

… his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … groups involved in stress tolerance and multicellularity enabled plants to develop complex structures and adapt to … They provide a unique window into the adaptations that enabled the first land plants to transition to terrestrial …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … and analysis of their data at the time. Following the publication of their paper in 2011, Dr. Sekimoto from …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, 107 patent applications, and 53 patents have … Megabasepairs. 2017: Pan-genome analysis of sorghum begins. Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program, Todd Mockler …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … genomes that are both large and complex. The first publication of a genome generated by the OGG initiative — …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature … , a team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand … at protein function within them. The work was led by a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and … intricate connections, and many, many moving parts. A lot of these moving parts are proteins — amino acid structures …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … all the energy they can. The results in the study were enabled by a number of  in vitro and  in vivo experiments, …

… host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play … a recent Nature Communications paper . The work was partly enabled by a JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposal …

… on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can …