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Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … with stress responses and compared them with those found in modern plants. They discovered that ancient algae …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Switchgrass is a native, shrubby grass that can … has a large polyploid genome, which means most genes are found as multiple copies across the chromosomes. In a …

JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists … the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a … National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic expression – in … that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of Science is the largest …

Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse … With the help of this information, the researchers found evolutionary relationships between methanogenesis, … “Distribution of predominant high-temperature archaeal and bacterial lineages in Yellowstone National Park,” as well as …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a … ran the gamut of sequencing technologies, from making a bacterial artificial chromosome library to long-read …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). In their analysis, they found the salinity changes led the algae to express genes …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of … misplacement.  In studying this family of ATs, researchers found that these enzymes have evolved distinctly from both …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, … sample — a small proportion of the sample’s billions of bacterial and archaeal cells — and detected the virus in 34 … then allowed the team to ask, for the 34 hosts they found, how prevalent in the mat are their viruses? The …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials … Initiative, a partnership between JGI and the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and knowledge-based user … on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging molecular biology and reverse …