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… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient … -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users and microbiome researchers Mike Wilkins and his graduate student … about the microbial communities deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field …

… second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … and metatranscriptome sequences, as well as individual reference fungal genome sequences assembled as part of its …

… to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics production for … diterpenoids impact the composition of the root-associated microbiome in maize (Zea mays). Scientific Reports. 2021. … al. Mass Spectrometry for Natural Product Discovery. 2020.  Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and …

A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose … approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to …

… ways to protect poplar and other crops being considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With the aim of producing at least one reference genome for every family of fungi, the 1000 Fungal … unwrapping complex mechanisms of genome-wide regulation and cataloging them in JGI’s fungal portal MycoCosm. … The work …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, … advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including …

As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal peril. But corals comprise multiple organisms: a … a photosynthetic microalgae, and a little-characterized microbiome. When warm waters stress corals, it might be their microbes, including their photosynthetic partner, that help them take …

… around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  genome using …

Dr. I-Min A. Chen received her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her … of the Object-Protocol Model (OPM) data management tools for scientific applications developed at Berkeley Lab. Dr. Chen is currently the Microbiome Computational Resource Lead at the JGI, …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a … . The comparative framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, switchgrass is among … the University of Texas at Austin produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome. The …