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… by altering their growth program, and on how plants coordinate their gene expression with light and temperature oscillations throughout the day. At the Joint Genome … Dr. Cole’s research focus has been on understanding how microbes can colonize plant roots, focusing on genetic …

… we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will … evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta … Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon after the JGI was established …

Dr. Northen is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. … Institute and the ENIGMA SFA project. In 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development …

… some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called … managed to adapt to a unique set of conditions in polar waters, including vast shifts in sunlight and frigid … into the function and activity of phytoplankton genes and looking at how communities of these microalgae interact, …

… research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . … flora, fire moss has adapted to conditions such as UV irradiation, heavy metal contamination, and drought. The moss … moss genomes ran the gamut of sequencing technologies, from making a bacterial artificial chromosome library to …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. … that  Zygnematophyceae share key genes with land plants for making and modifying cell walls, a feature crucial for …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match characteristics — creating many different ways of … insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving …