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The Genomes of the Fungal Plant Pathogens Cladosporium fulvum and Dothistroma septosporum Reveal Adaptation to Different Hosts and Lifestyles But Also Signatures of Common Ancestry
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CreA-mediated repression of gene expression occurs at low monosaccharide levels during fungal plant biomass conversion in a time and substrate dependent manner
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A telomere-to-telomere genome assembly resource of Bipolaris sorokiniana, the fungal pathogen causing spot blotch and common root rot diseases in barley and wheat
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A Better Way to Find RNA Virus Needles in the Proverbial Database Haystacks
Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A … Center for Biotechnology Information, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE … viruses,” said Simon Roux , a JGI scientist and one of the project co-leads. “But same as DNA viruses, RNA viruses …
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Taking Stock of the Known and Unknown Microbial Space
… in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global … 17, 2025 in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE … in learning more, fill out  this survey . … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …
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Simon Roux
… joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, …
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Year in Review: JGI’s 2018 Progress Report Available Now
The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own …
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Shattering Expectations: Novel Seed Dispersal Gene Found in Green Millet
Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … a carbon fixation process known as the C4 pathway, which particularly helps plants thrive in warm, arid environments. … JGI group has been wonderful to collaborate with, and this [project] wouldn’t have been possible without their …
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An Integrated Dataset to Understand Ecosystem Interaction
… relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand how … data set will help identify how different elements of the ecosystem interact and respond to changes in the … (LANL), and DE-AC05-76RL01830 (PNNL). … BioScales project on JGI Genomes Online Database … BioScales project …
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Dealing with Drought: Uncovering Sorghum’s Secrets
Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … Berkeley, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR), US Department of Agriculture P­­lant Gene Expression Center, … in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of Biological and …
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Party in the Rhizosphere
There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re … rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage …
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Plotting a Model for Virus-Host Warfare Deep Below Ground
Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … of Duisburg-Essen and included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE … (Nachwuchs-gruppe “Dr. Alexander Probst”), and the NOVAC project of the German Science Foundation (grant number DFG …
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