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Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been  published in  …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … the mysteries concealed within the “dark” functional realm. Their focus sharpened on deciphering the intricate world of … unique makeup of microbe players and the functions they perform, artificially replicating a whole community is …

More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of … Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from … of 13 JGI scientists, and a few of the mentors shared their thoughts on the students’ efforts. Ben Cole, a project …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when … down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from their soil samples. This gene expression dataset was …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered … This session will demonstrate to students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional …

…   Join the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for “Empowering Automated Laboratories: Integrating …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the … was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she deciphered function and host-symbiont …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and …