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… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which … P.-M.D is supported by the project Engineering Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA) currently funded …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … beyond the tried-and-true method of traditional shotgun metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …

… which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … Schmutz is the Plant Program Lead at the JGI. Sarah:  Why is a resource like this important to the field of plant … Atlas and PPRD could help with understanding gene functional roles, but the experimental inconsistency makes …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

Twice each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. Through …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and … Lab), and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in …