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… most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of … biogeochemical cycles in soils and sediments and plant-microbial interactions in crops. He has been a PI or Co-PI …

Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that …

As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … genome-resolved metagenomes and will be implementing new tools in KBase to tackle the bioinformatic challenges …

Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … and mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein … Tomas Tyml and Dr. Frederik Schulz with the New Lineages of Life Group at JGI. And we’ve been working on isolating and …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great … ” Anna Kucherova : “I got to learn about skills and tools that I’d never done before from my mentors. Also, …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers … what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically been … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach …

The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and … team sheds light on the range of archaeal symbiotic lifestyles found in the Antarctic lakes and offers a …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the … return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By …