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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair, noted that one of the biggest questions was the mystery of the missing …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … varieties that have high productivity across a range of environments is becoming increasingly important for food, … aren’t interested in waiting decades to develop new crops. One example is an ongoing collaborative effort to improve …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the …

… . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading … break down the wide array of simple and complex components present in plant biomass. This is of interest for …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … For the study, the team grew two sorghum varieties: one that tolerates better pre-flowering drought stress and a … the leaves. Each week the team would set up a makeshift lab powered by a generator at the KARE field site and then …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot … To acknowledge the efforts of the investigators who had done the sampling, Eloe-Fadrosh reached out to more than 200 …

Computing Facility (OLCF), NVIDIA, and the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, aims to explore … applications instead of on simulation codes. “JGI is one of the largest producers of environmental genomics data …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … they managed to enter the host cell. DGRs could prove to be powerful tools not only for viruses and other microbes , but for scientists. One emerging industry application of DGRs is to use them to …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the … a single cell and isolating it for analysis. Once it’s alone, the cell breaks apart and its DNA is copied millions of …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely … look at how this enzyme family evolved across 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on all the …

… and molecular characterization capabilities in just one research proposal. Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS … Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) program. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021. Q&A from the Webinar: …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … in the environment — their sheer genetic diversity. As pioneers of this field, the JGI has leveraged metagenomics to …