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… industry, and government organizations for three days of scientific presentation, interactive panel discussions, …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … of beans may not seem to amount to much, the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is actually a vital source of protein in … works on food crops specifically, “[At the JGI] we do use Phaseolus as a test model quite frequently for R&D in plant …

… in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, … as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic …

… to stay informed … The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facilities dedicated to …

… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s stress resistance and ability to adapt to … to better manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose … shows how anaerobic fungi — the kind living in the stomachs of livestock — are actually capable of naturally modifying …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern University describe a two-pronged approach …

… with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated the efficacy and potential of regulon identification by in vitro …

… to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene expression allowed researchers to identify variations of essential genes in metabolic networks that were missed …