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… underscores its value and importance in the fabric of our lives. In the United States, cotton production centers … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused …

… growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual … effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of scientists studied what happens to the tree’s physical … as secreted proteins. However,  M. elongata  seems to encourage the plant to have leakier cell walls and weaker …

… reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples … zofingiensis . “I was scrutinizing the genes of one of our species of algae and kept seeing what looked like … and first author of the article. The research team included scientists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … system. “We then looked into many more samples and refined our methodology,” Neri said. “Our team grew and so did the …

…   Join the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for “Empowering Automated … for more details and registration information. Sign up for our newsletter , the JGI Primer, to stay informed … The JGI …

… expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of … can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held that these fungi don’t have the energy …

… can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by … The Impact In providing a reference sugarcane  genome , the JGI provides foundational genetic information that crop … cultivar R570 has been generated and  reported in the journal  Nature . The work led by researchers at Australia’s …

… single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting … genomes then amplified and sequenced individually, offering scientists the opportunity to apply population genomics … microbial populations. The work appeared in The ISME Journal . Members of the Dunfield lab collected samples from …