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… causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … Obsidian Pool hot spring. The researchers applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… restoring and maintaining healthy soils – are at the heart of sustaining food and bioenergy security for a steadily … soil enrichment, is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley …

… Over the last few months, we found an increasing number of colleagues missing elements of the required PPE in the lab. To address this issue, we … to provide our colleagues with a visual representation of JGI PPE requirements. When working in the lab, it is … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new … striving for sustainability in lab spaces as well as offices. These efforts dovetail into sustainability … looking at the overall greenhouse gas impacts from all of our operations,” said Brie Fulton, program manager for  …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," chemical compounds that often confer specialized capabilities that allow the …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better … , is recognized as a mutualist, where both species of organism benefit from association, but was predicted to … researchers also generated the first transcriptomic dataset of sexual reproduction in early fungi and discovered genes …

… chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under standard conditions. As described in a recent issue of mSystems , scientists found that adding salt to the … provides engineers concrete targets for optimization. Many of the metabolic switches identified are shared across …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, contributed metagenomic sequencing to the study as well as  genome analysis, …

… (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … to help researchers assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The … DNA sequencing can help scientist to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial …