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A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly … bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important … users will enable us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium …

The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together … Stop by the JGI booth to learn about our user programs and how we can help advance your science. …

You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to … John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — and literal — roots could play a …

… a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel applications. The Impact Sphagnum’s … Responses Under Changing Environments) project, assessing how northern peatland ecosystems respond to increases in …

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In … depends on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a …

Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted to … we also hoped to use this unique opportunity to quantify how transitions to higher ploidy could be generating these … also hoped that this would more broadly allow us to assess how ploidy variation alters genomic diversity, fitness, and …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the … project, I wanted to incorporate that CSP, but also look at how viruses might be influencing the methane cycling within … wetlands.” A chapter of Rambo’s research focuses on how viruses influence carbon cycling in coastal mangroves. …

… single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium …

… sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's 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, …