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… and floods. The planet’s resources are being stretched by a growing human population and increasing demand for … relationship between plant roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), known to provide plants with nutrients and pathogen protection. Specifically, gene expression in that set, …
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… alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 gave interns the opportunity to be …
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… transcriptomic dataset of sexual reproduction in early fungi and discovered genes that are critical for this … and Burkholderia endobacteria, a collaborative effort led by researchers at Cornell University and scientists at the … fungus reliant on the continued presence of the bacteria. By studying the Rm-Burkholderia symbiosis model, the team …
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… Mr. Everson rejoined the JGI in 2020 and leads all aspects of JGI Operations which include …
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… established professionals to explore opportunities in STEM by providing hands-on learning opportunities and ultimately, …
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… The team found that some of the adaptation strategies used by liverwort are also seen in flowering plants, or … in the Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … Science Program . The comparative framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help …
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… Kuhn in his 25th Anniversary presentation. “Those driven by new tools and those driven by new concepts.” Patrinos went on to explain that the JGI’s … of Health that this effort would prove invaluable. By the mid-1990s, the sequencing efforts expanded beyond …
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… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components The … to any type of lignin breakdown — and lignin breakdown by anaerobic fungi therefore thought to be impossible. And … which requires getting through the lignin. Researchers led by Michelle O’Malley’s lab at the University of California …
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… Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … are sharing their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column Genome Watch in Nature Reviews … Sanger Institute.” Last year for the column, Woyke wrote about the research field’s move toward characterizing …
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… pair with maize, the dominant source of bioethanol, in crop rotation, but soybean ( Glycine max ) also has the advantage … and oil was also the largest plant project completed by the JGI. It has since been cited more than 5,400 times, … to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, …
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… one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s … delivering the (baked) goods – a retirement cake adorned by a JGI helix motif. Ray’s wife Deb, delivered a mask for … to the real-time chat during Ray’s All-Hands tribute wrote, “Thanks for all you’ve done for users around the …
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