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…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in … be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for …

… Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base … ways to protect poplar and other crops being considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With the aim of … technologies for producing both reference genomes and epigenomics, researchers are unwrapping complex mechanisms of …

… Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite … of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and …

… The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest growing trees in the Northern Hemisphere, making them tantalizing plants to harness for bioenergy. In this episode, hear from Oak Ridge National …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans could do the same on an … in the journal Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists to …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these … gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down …

… Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into …

… In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate … their careers in science. Hear more about what they learned from working with their JGI mentors, what challenges they overcame, and what new skill sets they look forward to taking back to school.  The interns from this …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … challenges. Sorghum stands out as a candidate feedstock for biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even … reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, 107 patent applications, and 53 patents have …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into … soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual … by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon …