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… aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a … well as the evolution of seed plants, the fern’s distant cousin. Ceratopteris richardii, or C-fern, specifically has … (Berkeley Lab) took on the Open Green Genome Initiative in 2018 as part of its Community Science Program. The OGG has …

… are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees to raise their … called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these weird little pods. …

… orange yields clues to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of … a disease ravaging citrus groves: citrus greening. From 2012 to 2016, in Florida alone this disease caused an …

JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes … and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of … from thousands of ecologically diverse metagenomics samples. The work is supported by NIH Common Fund grant …

… a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 … of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia lipolytica to … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these …

BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in … used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. …

… they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal … cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how archaeal hosts and hitchhikers coexist, … Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  in …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic … biogeochemical cycles around them. By understanding more about the genomics of MGEs and their evolution at the …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach … degrade the plant biomass. In order to learn more about these regulatory networks in the model fungus  N. …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can … fungi can form such symbiotic partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental … Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and … with statistical significance. Nat Commun. 13, 2510 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30118-9 Swift CL, …