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… the team focused on Actinobacteria ( Actinomycetota ), a group of bacteria with diverse metabolic activities. Found in … Many of these bacterial and archaeal genome sequences have been generated using techniques that the JGI has pioneered, … Actinobacteria Over the years more than 3,400 genomes have been sequenced from curated DSMZ isolates, for which quality …

… the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, … population. Not very many of these shattering genes have been discovered that let a plant go all the way to seed but … The gene is an ortholog of known genes, “The gene has now been mapped back in maize as involved in leaf angle,” noted …

… researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon … in nutrient-poor, acidic and waterlogged environments, occupying every continent except Antarctica. Researchers … terrestrial carbon is stored in peatlands, which make up nearly 3 percent of the earth’s land surface. In the New …

… student in the Quantitative Systems Biology (QSB) Group under the School of Natural Sciences (SNS). During his … have adjunct faculty positions with the SNS, and Wang’s group was hosting another QSB graduate student, Travis … of our entire graduate program! At this point the focus has been on students in the QSB graduate program, but I believe …

… The JGI’s DNA Synthesis Program supports a wide range of projects, from single-gene synthesis … and other bioenergy solutions.  The program has been a pioneering effort in functional genomics since 2012, … global energy and environmental challenges. The program supports cutting-edge research in synthetic biology by …

… Swift CL, et al. Anaerobic gut fungi are an untapped reservoir of natural products. …

… be associated with a plant’s sex. One outcome could be superfemale plants that have increased fruit and seed yield. … This work was supported by NSF DEB-1541005 and start-up funds from UF to S.F.M.; microMORPH Cross-Disciplinary …

… Arthur Grossman of the Carnegie Institution, and Sabeeha Merchant of UCLA. Merchant is now at UC Berkeley and … to library research for three months. While reading up on photosynthesis, she stumbled upon an interesting … to annotate a genome. (Hear more from on Chlamy from Sabeeha Merchant in this episode of JGIotas, a Genome Insider …

… and Biochemistry)  Here’s a selection of studies these busy bees contributed to:  Giant bacteria visible to the naked … 5,000 times the average size. Woyke’s  Single Cells Group helped better-understand what the sulfur-oxidizing, … was previously thought. Instead, it turns out this fern has been co-opting genes from bacteria. Schmutz was also …

… toolkit for the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been published. Analysis of the genome sequence also … Researchers at CABBI and elsewhere are following up on these discoveries to develop new varieties of … This work was supported by the Energy Biosciences Institute and the DOE …