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A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of … to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and …

… a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the soybean, Glycine max. With a full genome sequence, researchers have been able to look into soybean’s strengths …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical labelling approach. The Impact … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

Find a series of webinars related to our Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes portal. …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

… for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. While … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… fungal genomes and multi-omics datasets, equipped with interactive web-based tools for comparative genomics and community annotation. Presented by Igor Grigoriev, Steven Mondo, Steven …

When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic … biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s … Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has … Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab …

The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around … eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants , was … Program (CSP 502951, 2016, Population and evolutionary genomics of host–microbiome interactions in Zostera marina …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, … a more systematic picture through single-cell and metagenomic sequencing. A team co-led by Mária Džunková, … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …