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Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics as “true … Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of these researchers were involved in, …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger RNA, …

Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much … Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)  proposed … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  Citrus genus, which gives us lemons, kumquats, limes, pomelos, mandarins, sweet oranges, and …

DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins …

The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. … Science Interested in the genomes of algae? You now have one place where you can browse the genetic blueprints of these photosynthetic organisms. PhycoCosm is one of the largest data repositories of its kind, with an …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular …

… regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their … our experiments to test that were unsuccessful — which doesn’t necessarily mean they can’t do it, but they are …

Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon …

… chromosomes of  Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene expression as it grows back vigorously year after year (perenniality). The Impact Among the long-term aims for bioenergy feedstock crops are …