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… the Community Science Program’s  Functional Genomics call for proposals .  On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science … a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a … Science Head] Yasuo [Yoshikuni] gave back in 2016.” Alper’s first approved JGI proposal came through the Functional …

Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 … take on certain functions at the forest floor. For the first time, they compared three different fungal guilds in a … Lucas Auer, a research engineer at INRAE and one of the first authors of this work.  To compare these trophic …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation … A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux … than current natural processes and use it as a sustainable resource for making high-value bioproducts. As a step toward …

… to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a model for evolutionary studies. Its place among early-diverging … of the  Marchantia pangenome, scientists developed a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with …

… is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can … with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been …

The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers … approach to isolate cellulose-degrading microbes. They first bound single microbes to fluorescently labeled … whole genome amplification and shotgun sequencing. The team first tested the approach on bacterial laboratory models to …

Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and … their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column Genome Watch in  Nature Reviews Microbiology … the article comes out — about two months after the first draft. Woyke has so far selected the authors of these …

… challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published in the journal … relationship with the poplar, a JGI Flagship Genome and the first tree to have its genome sequenced. Having this first … Today, there are nearly 200 mycorrhizal fungal genomes publicly available on the fungal portal MycoCosm, many …

… tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” In this study,  published … order to interrogate each one’s function. However, the team first needed to fix a defect in the approach: CRISPR-Cas9 …

This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past …