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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published in the journal Nature . The mushroom has a symbiotic relationship with the poplar, a JGI …

… carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest soils hold keys to tree … give researchers a way to access much more information about fungi in these environments. “Now with these new tools … soil samples of these varied biomes; the forests share only about 20% of their fungal species. To make useful …

… ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental … researchers have been able to gain further insights about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar … Nanohaloarchaeota were predicted to be capable of autonomous growth because they had larger genome sizes and their …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and unknown. The challenge remains to learn more about what microbes are present in any given … spectrometry-based enzyme activity assay. The work was  reported in  The ISME Journal . While the screen caught …

Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most … of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  about 3 million years ago. The study shows that figure is …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors … Database (GOLD) administered by the DOE JGI. T.B.K Reddy, Kaushal‘s mentor, described his student’s contributions as … tasks we assigned.”       Click here to watch a video about the Biotech Partner summer interns at the JGI. What …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study …

… specific conditions – in over a dozen plants. To learn more about the project, HudsonAlpha’s Research Communication … author Avinash Sreedasyam, a HudsonAlpha senior scientist, about the project. The story is reposted here in modified … It was developed to improve plant genome annotations at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI)*, …

… scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms … been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA sequencing to understand gene expression: one of … circular capture areas roughly 55-microns in diameter — about the width of a human hair. At such resolution, this …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … novel technique to access high-quality genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from individual … Other firsts followed. The next year, the JGI team reported the first closed and finished genome derived from …

… sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part of the … That work published in Nature Communications on June 17 , 2022, was conducted by JGI Director Nigel Mouncey and …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … assesses what fraction of the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate … bacterial diversity. The team conservatively estimated that about 42% of the bacterial diversity has no genomic …