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Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause much damage to the hosts, but they are carriers of several viruses (e.g., … paper was able to resolve the latter question, despite of their well-designed sampling and analysis of their data at …

Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than … most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, scientists have shed … how eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants …

This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in New Orleans and online. Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global … , both faculty investigators at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. “The goal has been for all this new … at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is so important to crops. …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve … a chemical and biological engineer at the University of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a … like goats, sheep and cows share an important talent. In their herbivorous lives, they all process loads of tough …

Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became … of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages. Cell . 185(21):4023-4037 Nayfach S, et al. …

The  National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network … Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  … NEON website and click on the Data & Samples tab. Front their you can click on Data and into the Data Portal where …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 … tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … Moreover, the team says the approach they used to validate their set of guide RNAs could be applied to other …

Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes … of these varied biomes; the forests share only about 20% of their fungal species. To make useful comparisons, the …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, …

In 2003, Dr. Pennacchio joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular … his Ph.D in 1998 from the Department of Genetics at Stanford University where he uncovered the genetic cause of a …