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Natural soil microbes alter flowering phenology and the intensity of selection on flowering time in a wild Arabidopsis relative
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Microbial community transcriptomes reveal microbes and metabolic pathways associated with dissolved organic matter turnover in the sea
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A Shrubbier Version of Rubber
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Graduate Students Get Thesis Research Opportunity at the JGI
Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program … metabolism, work on which she will expand with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. … on carbon cycling dynamics at the terrestrial-marine interface, which at a larger scale may be applicable towards …
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Extracting the Secrets of Secondary Metabolites
… survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … technologies. While CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is the leading tool for … secondary metabolites within a lab environment, shining a light into this “biological dark matter.”  It also offers …
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JGI Launches Latest Strategic Plan
For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one … the Lab’s 200-acre campus—with the big move from leased space in Walnut Creek, Calif. scheduled to begin a month … with the other user facilities including the Advanced Light Source, the Molecular Foundry, NERSC and ESnet, as …
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Identifying the Microbial Cleanup Crew at a Superfund Site
PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can help bioremediate toxic substances has led to the development of cost-effective environmental cleanup strategies. Summary …
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Rare earth element alcohol dehydrogenases widely occur among globally distributed, numerically abundant and environmentally important microbes
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The United States Culture Collection Network (USCCN): Enhancing Microbial Genomics Research through Living Microbe Culture Collections
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Uncovering Novel Genomes from Earth’s Microbiomes
Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … the roles of microorganisms in regulating nutrient cycles, as well as gaining insights into potential … researchers might consider branching into this space. “Most metagenomics researchers might not be willing to …
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JGI@25: Tracking & Subduing the Plague of California’s Oak Woodlands
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … the immune system of oaks and enables them to fend off the effects of infections. As SOD testing may be prohibitively … Science News of the Day: Stokstad E. Genetics. Genomes highlight plant pathogens’ powerful arsenal . Science. 2006 Sep …
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JGI@25: Solving the Mystery of the Missing Oil
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … rig explosion that dumped nearly five million barrels of light crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, … the mystery of the missing oil: “There was oil on the surface and oil below, but no oil in between.” To find an …
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