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JGI mentors. In this episode, hear two interns from the 2021 cohort describe their deep dives into genomics, computational tools, and big data.  …

The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference … heavy metal contamination, and drought. The moss genomes’ metabolic pathways could lead to the discovery of … In a recent Scientific Advances article , a team led by McDaniel and his former graduate student Sarah Carey, now …

… a small city’s population, the number of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority not harmful to humans could be … and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes of giant viruses are on the order of 100 times the … recent study  published in the journal  Nature , a team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the … and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. … in the global  carbon cycle . As decayers, Lentinula fungi access carbon previously locked away in wood, converting it …

… how sorghum’s historical — and literal — roots could play a big role in our energy future. …

For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of both partners to better … are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes and transcriptomes could … this symbiosis going back hundreds of millions of years, accidental gene swaps via horizontal gene transfer would have …

… the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely … of the National Academy of Sciences bridges this gap, by tracing the evolution of a specific enzyme family called … of these enzymes across 90 species. They queried the genomes of 15 species from each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, …