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… global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has now sequenced and assembled the genomes of these five cotton … insights on crop improvements at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is …

… a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of … Varicosavirus ) which may severely reduce crop yields. Like the typical chytrids and other early-diverging fungi, … of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data with strong …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to … to climate change and devastating fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years … through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha …

… The Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of … The JGI uniquely offers the first quantitative Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline … access to cutting-edge cell sorting, DNA amplification, and sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated …

… AMGs in soil viruses thought to break down chitin, the gene sequences were cloned by the JGI.  The JGI’s DNA synthesis … the sequence data to compare viral chitosanases to others like it available in public databases. These viral … and AMGs. It could spawn future research into understanding why these AMGs exist in the first place, and what function …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … evolved to high performance, with specificity — a bit like including hex keys in many different sizes in a …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene … to recognize individual pathogens and pull them out, like fish on a fishing line, without harming the rest of the …

… Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from … forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for …