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… vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, environmental sustainability, and … The program’s focus is on large-scale sequencing efforts that survey the vast phylogenetic and ecological … populations and engineered strains. This approach allows for the identification of key functional traits that have …

… and publish first-author papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome … two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

… help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, transforming, and respiring carbon. Understanding the metabolisms that SAR324 and other microbes use could inform scientists’ understanding of carbon fluxes in the … capabilities. According to Boeuf, 16S rRNA genes are like stamps on packages: Focus only on the stamps, and you …

… back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often … evolved to high performance, with specificity — a bit like including hex keys in many different sizes in a … with fewer enzyme copies. In this way, this family is more like including a Swiss Army knife within a toolkit – a tool …

… in the Antarctic lakes and offers a genetically-tractable model system that could help researchers better understand … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate … the Rauer 1 and Club lakes in East Antarctica and enriched for native microbes. Metagenomes from enrichment cultures …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described … the predator-prey dynamics in these mats helps constrain models that estimate biogeochemical fluxes. Summary Previous … that viruses don’t diffuse well through the mat, so they’re likely constrained to a local population of host cells. If …

… challenges. Sorghum stands out as a candidate feedstock for biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even … reference genome and releases it to the community. 2014: GENCODE project begins. To support growing sorghum and other … across the species. Earlier pan-genomes for other plants, like the soybean relative Glycine max ( 2014 ) and the grass …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces … us dial back their emissions, while still producing things like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators …