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… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … outcomes of these infections can affect the interactions within their ecosystems. Summary Microbes drive the energy … Researchers have the opportunity to combine the power of genomics and molecular characterization offered at multiple …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … . “Common beans are a major societal crop for those with severely limited income,” McClean said. “Common bean is … Phaseolus as a test model quite frequently for R&D in plant genomics, because it is an inbred dicot,” Schmutz explained, …

… UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was … pairs undergraduate and graduate students from UC Merced with at least one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or educational goals.  This …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide so they … sequence and then analyze the genomes and multi-omics datasets for algae that can be used for large-scale …

… Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome … program, and on how plants coordinate their gene expression with light and temperature oscillations throughout the day. … University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … plants don’t fully decompose in peatlands, and so carbon within their tissues doesn’t return to the atmosphere. Peat … kingdom. Specifically, researchers found that female plants within a species tended to weather pH stress from peatlands’ …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better … researchers investigated the role that bacteria living within a host (endosymbionts) have on fungal host … model, researchers also generated the first transcriptomic dataset of sexual reproduction in early fungi and discovered …

… seeps through cracks in the Earth’s crust and reacts with very hot rocks below, becoming an extremely hot, … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, contributed metagenomic sequencing to the study as well as  genome analysis, … and metabolic potential of the communities studied. The datasets are available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial …

… The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue … Because microorganisms live in complex communities, like within soils or the gut, they are difficult to study …

… di-GMP (Guanine Monophosphate) is found in nearly all types of bacteria and interacts with cell signaling networks that control many basic … within the Nano-lantern scaffold. They then mined sequence databases for homologous YcgR proteins and chose a set of 92 …

… 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 … This work was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award No. …

… Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … noted, specific genes of interest could be associated with a plant’s sex. One outcome could be superfemale plants …