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… they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And … important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to destabilize the delicate … organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a model grass system for answers. Their work  recently appeared in  Nature …

…   The JGI is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These … to global biogeochemical cycles. Additional efforts in metabolic engineering and biocatalyst design will target …

Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the filamentous … break down the wide array of simple and complex components present in plant biomass. This is of interest for …

The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for … and Coniochaeata lignaria , and both DNA and RNA viruses. One trait that stood out in both bacteria and fungi …

Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial … Science Program . The proposal focuses on uncovering the metabolic networks involved in carbon and nutrient flux in …

… data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s … a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel applications. The Impact Sphagnum’s impact …

… microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an … the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate what is still unknown.  “We … it comes to isolate genome data, our real-world touchstones, we’re just scratching the proverbial Petri dish,” …