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… 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable … bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is actually a vital source of protein in many food-insecure countries around the globe, as … effect you’re going to have with a faster-cooking bean itself.” The original reference genome yielded what are now …

… is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy … lipids can make up more than 90 percent of the microbe’s dry weight. In order to better harness these gobs of energy, … from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program ( DGE-1110007 ). SA, AB, and MB were supported …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to … that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater … Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …

Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! … those recognized by Clarivate Analytics as “true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the … researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. I-Min Chen ,  Natalia …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … the JGI also identified a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. A 2020 Nature Genetics …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( … encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, etc. — …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable … for approximately 12% of the total human genome, which itself was finally deemed complete on April 1, 2022. After …

DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven graduate students from UC Merced through … networking workshops, data carpentry hackathons, and also made new friends while working on their summer projects. … & Bikash Shrestha Project: “ Detecting Isotope Bonds in Proteins. ” Yu Lu : ”I really enjoyed meeting and getting to …

Research yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between … as a biofuel feedstock. Public accessibility to the data made available through this multidisciplinary approach allows researchers to conduct a wide variety of analyses that …

… view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and … in nutrient-poor fields. “This is one interaction that allows plants to better survive in those environments,”  Karen … seedlings grown in a controlled environment chamber, so the fungus could colonize the plants’ roots. Then, comparing …

… view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and … in nutrient-poor fields. “This is one interaction that allows plants to better survive in those environments,”  Karen … seedlings grown in a controlled environment chamber, so the fungus could colonize the plants’ roots. Then, comparing …