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… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global … to climate change and devastating fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years … through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have … of these approaches. One way of detecting giant viruses in sequence data is read-mapping: using giant virus reference … This work was conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and …

… High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between … it. The isotopes are incorporated into the DNA of specific microbes who consume the labeled food or water. Later, their … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE …

… metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the … small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the …