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… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference fungal  genome . … in the absence of oxygen. These findings offer the first real irrefutable proof that lignin can be …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … has developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated … for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and single-cell genomics, the vast …

… JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  … proposals, resulting from 95 letters of intent. For the first time, 63 percent of the accepted proposals come from … Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) are interested in sequencing secondary metabolite-producing environmental …

… the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and …   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … change. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … was possibly driven by genetics, or even temperature. By sequencing the genome, researchers were able to pinpoint …

… Northen’s research is focused on using metabolomics to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development and application of advanced mass spectrometry approaches and model … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …

… was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … sugarcane was published as a step forward in this effort. Sequencing and assembling the genome required a custom …

… genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … The genome assemblies highlight the multiple advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact … times the size of the next largest chromosome. As the study first author Carey put it, these sex chromosomes first …