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… the JGI has also helped researchers understand a fungus that threatens these crops as they grow. Asian Soybean Rust is a major problem. Leaves grow discolored and rust … ASR can decimate up to 60-90% of its yield.  (Learn more about the soybean genome sequence and ASR in this JGIota, a …

… how their laboratory and data science efforts support users, advance foundational science and enable biotechnology … Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility supported by the Biological and Environmental …

… Nikos Kyrpides Dan Rokhsar Simon Roux Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of … (Watch SCGSR fellows Nick Reichart and Ian Rambo talk about their experiences at the JGI.) Igor Grigoriev hosted … investigate viruses detected in the samples. Simon Roux co-organized the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) …

… lineages. The Science From the distinct smell of eucalyptus to the flavor of wine, terpenes are ubiquitous. A diverse … against those of E. grandis to find differences in genome organization between the two species. The work was reported … of the evolution and selection of this gene family may help researchers manipulate TPS genes to increase …

… snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … Nuevo is, historically, a fishing town and we know little about its coastal microbial ecology. We also know little … including pain relief. The microbes in cone snails may be involved in venom activity, which is part of a larger …

… the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what it means in a … are there.  ALISON:  Those invertebrate species include mayflies and the caddisflies, which are of keen interest to …