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In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M … Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant …

More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … Zhong Wang and Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … find the enzymes that make the rumen such an efficient biomass-degrading environment and transfer that ability into …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. Despite the low maintenance, it can produce an impressive amount of biomass which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels …

… for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … and the fact that I got to do a project involving over 12,000 fungal genomes was just really, really exciting for me …

Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … sugarcane into production factories for sugar and biomass. Additionally, the team was able to identify a major …

The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that … Citrus , appeals in other ways. It better tolerates cold, withstands pests, and, especially tantalizing, resists a disease ravaging citrus groves: citrus greening. From 2012 to 2016, in Florida alone this disease caused an …

Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are among … fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.” Less than 6,200 researchers working in 21 …

On February 17, 2021, JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences … Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single Proposal webinar, inviting researchers to … just one research proposal. Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … the crop for additional end products. The genetic diversity within this set of plants, each with a fully-sequenced … interest in harnessing the crop as a versatile candidate biomass feedstock for producing sustainable alternative fuels. …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to … organisms such as whales, penguins, and seals. “The biomass of krill at least equals the biomass of all humans on …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have collaborated with global researchers on projects related to understanding … metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , 2021), geNomad , a tool for identifying mobile genetic …