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… scientists want to take a further look into identifying genes related to biotic stresses to better understand … grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (160004, 131726), the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation …

… are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying and breeding varieties that have high productivity … differences rather than just observing them. Can we quantify them? Can we tie them to the genome? We can use common … set up these gardens, we have them to study for a number of years. And that’s a real benefit for the research program.” …

… suggests this redundancy is protective, a bit like diversifying an investment portfolio. If a stress like wildfire or … this way was challenging, according to Martin. “Twelve years ago, when we mapped the first sequenced RNA from the … Fungal Genomes project changed that. This is a multi-year project in collaboration with the JGI to sequence 1000 …

… the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 gave interns the …

… lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it …

… the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over … has extended the possible virophage genome size range from 13.8-29.3 kilobases (Kb) to 10.9-42.3 Kb. Additionally, the gene counts have similarly gone up from 13-25 to 12-39. “Overall,” the team concluded, “we provide a …

… rapid environmental changes. Researchers were able to identify specific genes that allow the algae to adapt to sudden … more nutrients to fuel growth. The Impact Over the last 40 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic has decreased by more …

… filter the data for the major capsid protein (MCP) to identify NCLDV viruses. JGI researchers previously applied this …