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… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … a chemical engineer at the University of California, Riverside. The team also included researchers at the U.S. … of Science User Facility. Y. lipolytica is a tantalizing microbial factory, capable of turning abundant biomass …

… plant host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots … determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can … work was partly enabled by a JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposal led by INRAE’s Francis Martin that contributed …

… are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of … feeds into a better understanding of nutrient cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how … in two subsurface ecosystems in very different parts of the world: Crystal Geyser, Utah, USA, and Horonobe Underground …

… angiosperms, suggesting they are evolutionarily conserved across plant lineages. They hypothesized that certain gene … 35 major evolutionary plant lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. … scientists have turned their attention to the pangenomes of plants.  Pangenomes encompass a plant’s genetic …

… Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … move toward characterizing the human microbiome  by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal …

… an integrated approach to genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging Technologies … genomes, particularly from incredibly complex soil microbial communities, is crucial to understanding how these … improving methods for isolating and characterizing entire microbial genomes from sequences generated from …

… in developing and maintaining the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The … workflows that allow researchers to easily analyze viral genomes. This includes (i) classifying viruses into groups that can be compared across studies, (ii) predicting which hosts these viruses …