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… and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic … biogeochemical cycles around them. By understanding more about the genomics of MGEs and their evolution at the …

… crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … pathways could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …

… began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third the size of the United States began forming in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … scarce during the heatwave, they saw populations shift. Smaller picoplankton and free-living microbes that can fix …

… fungi can form such symbiotic partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … published fungal genomes on the JGI data portal MycoCosm . They looked for genes known to be involved in …

… of the five major lineages of cotton;  G. tomentosum ,  G. mustelinum , and  G. darwinii are the others. All of these … and indirectly to genetic diversity, evolution, wild germplasm utilization and increasing the efficacy with which we use … is one such example.” Jones noted that he talks to growers about Cotton Inc.’s long-term investment in crop research. …

… had identified 1,110 genes involved in lipid metabolism.  “There’s still a lot of thinking that truck fuel and … the JGI has also helped researchers understand a fungus that threatens these crops as they grow. Asian Soybean … ASR can decimate up to 60-90% of its yield.  (Learn more about the soybean genome sequence and ASR in this JGIota, a …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … arms race in uncultivated yet abundant subsurface organisms was  recently reported in Nature Communications. The … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). To learn more about how microbial populations respond to virus infections, …

Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and knowledge-based user facility at Berkeley lab. She earned her PhD in … of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in … heme site ties heme availability to carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria. Nature Comm 15:3167. Hammack AT, …

Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools for elucidation … "Natural Prodcast" podcast, a "fireside chat"-style podcast about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. … PhD in Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University (2003) MS …

… cow stomach. Rumen – and its microbes – are really a powerhouse. Rumen microbes have the ability to break down hardy … approach which allows scientists to study microorganisms that can’t be cultured by analyzing and then … expanded into three other universities. You can learn more about how JGI data supports higher education in this JGIota …

… amount of biomass which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, … productivity across 1,100 miles and eight states. In 2021, using switchgrass samples from these gardens, a team led by … At the 2021 JGI Annual Meeting, David Lowry talked about a multi-year study his student conducted involving …

… resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high … by routing the carbon away from methanogens. In The ISME Journal, a team led by researchers from the University …