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… (UC), Berkeley, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR), US Department of Agriculture P­­lant Gene Expression Center, … Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … the crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), researchers conducted large-scale experiments in …

… Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … how big the room is.  A new study  published online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional … is working on soil environments or the human body — they may take some of those families and try to functionally …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study microorganisms. Because microorganisms live in complex communities, like within …

… Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the … The team found that some of the adaptation strategies used by liverwort are also seen in flowering plants, or … of plants to the Earth’s ever-changing harsh habitats, thus allowing them to spread across most of the plant’s …

… work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments … over the world, scientists have discovered giants among viruses. Now categorized in their own phylum,  … large virions (700 nm in diameter) to much smaller virions (120 nm in diameter). Across the phylum  Nucleocytoviricota , …

… In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published in the journal Nature . The mushroom has a symbiotic relationship with the poplar, a JGI … the fungal portal MycoCosm, many sequenced through the JGI 1000 Fungal Genomes Project.       Francis Martin on the …

… The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific … Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific …

… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven … Merced through their long standing internship program. In just two months, the students participated in networking …

… putida to break down biomass and help bring about a more sustainable, biobased economy. They conduct research at the … Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers.  …

… microbial ecosystems. These communities harbor tens of thousands of different organisms who all consume different … as well; at any given time, many species in a community may be in ‘low power mode’, where they do very little.  SIP … version of a specific chemical, where ordinary Carbon-12 atoms are swapped for the heavier, non-radioactive …