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… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean … Mars, Inc.-led consortium through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

…   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national user facility located at … The JGI consists of 225 researchers and support staff in the Integrative Genomics Building in Berkeley, … The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a high-throughput AI-centric …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly … the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater samples — so this episode is a …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress tolerance and multicellularity enabled …

… of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of the terpene synthase gene family across eucalypt … is endemic to northern Australia but is increasingly farmed in other countries for essential oil production. The … in the journal Heredity . In order to understand the gene expression and function of these TPS genes, Australian …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was … wetlands in south Texas,” he explained. “In terms of my project, I wanted to incorporate that CSP, but also look at …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living organisms as had been originally thought. The Impact The …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic biogeography. The Science Haloarchaea flourish in hypersaline environments, and researchers are interested in learning … (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of …

… Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of … Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program . Her research project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane …

… The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is committed to advancing the … the benefit to society. Inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP), and building upon the principles for open … ability of the principal investigators of approved JGI user projects to publish the primary report of their data without …