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… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a … my first publication and it feels so rewarding,” Wint said. For Axel Visel, JGI Science Deputy and a co-founder of the … She continued working virtually with her JGI mentors for nearly three years after her internship. “That level of …

… diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a resource for breeders and researchers to harness the traits that let … keys to drought and flood resilience, biomass production for fuels, and growth in poor soils. In addition to … fields, understanding this plant eventually offers avenues for translating its strengths into other crops for biofuels …

… Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand … protein families and novel functions in as-yet unveiled microbes. Harnessing the collective power of more than … unique makeup of microbe players and the functions they perform, artificially replicating a whole community is …

…   For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a … this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah Bagby (Case Western …

… approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the … between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though microbes help regulate the planet’s nutrient cycles and are … of tens of thousands of previously unknown and uncultivated microbes through metagenomics. Such techniques take …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the … take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in a …

… of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of … and in your data, and they’re probably influencing the microbes there,” said Simon Roux , the Viral Genomics Group … challenges, characterizing viruses is a key step. For decades, though, many viruses have been somewhat …