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Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at … America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.       …

Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the … over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by … Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of these researchers were involved in, …

The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal … and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

… need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun …

Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the … their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.” … Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of these researchers were involved in, …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA … i.e. in January. She talked about her  Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … partnership had become a “model” of sorts at the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to … students. Being able to do this was beneficial to her in multiple ways. “At Berkeley Lab, we have an established set of …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every … terrestrial fungi suggested that there were multiple flagellum loss events during the diversification of …

… in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. … source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events … in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of Biological and …

… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … you have a landing pad in a strain, you can deliver multiple types of payloads, such as individual genes, whole … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a  project detailed in  ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …