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A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of … to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and …

… collaborate with users to develop project requirements, define the scope of work and outline roles and responsibilities resulting in a formal Statement of Work (SOW). … To submit a proposal, users must first log in (Note: new users of the JGI will need to register and create a …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … Data Collaborative.  This award recognizes distinguished research achievements that support open data practices, … discussions on how to capture and characterize viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural …

Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His research activity is focused on developing and implementing new technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to …

… vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny … of conditions in polar waters, including vast shifts in sunlight and frigid temperatures. These waters also contain … looking at how communities of these microalgae interact, researchers have found that polar algae rely on dissolved …

… that will help shape all of our futures.” Proposing a Research Experience Benskin wanted to give his high school … “When I originally envisioned the project of the class, I knew that I wanted them to write a final paper that  could be … their faces.” Eloe-Fadrosh considers the experience the highlight of her past year’s work at the JGI. As the students …

… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix … (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and breed cultivars for the next … mechanisms of sex determination could also lead to new approaches to accelerate flowering, which can speed the …