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… for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific contribution? This session will demonstrate … for students to gain research experience and how students were able to use these experiences to get credit for their …

… symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata … off decaying organic matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always … sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger RNA, which encodes a …

… diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short …

Dr. Northen is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. … 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI … Reproducible growth of Brachypodium in EcoFAB 2.0 reveals that nitrogen form and starvation modulate root exudation. …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database … the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel capabilities of IMG/VR to browse and …

… team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy … they used to validate their set of guide RNAs could be applied to other non-conventional organisms. Summary …

… a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your garden and a potential fuel for the future. But, to be competitive in the market, both energy policy and …

Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome … include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new … Virus Genome (MIUViG). Nature Biotechnology 37, 29–37. Berg et al., 2021. Host population diversity as a driver of …

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 disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking …

American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a … diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the … Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …