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… crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … Carey, now at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, reported that high quality genome references are now … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …

… disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  Citrus … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE … fellow interns and scientists alike. Want to learn more about their experience? Watch the short video below. Video … fall for my master’s in plant soil science and my career focus is plant breeding. Ti’Yanna Watson: My mentor is Dr. Yi …

… fungi can form such symbiotic partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … and Koonin both noted that other research in parallel has reported similar “dramatic expansions” of the global RNA …

… an array of experiments at universities and national user facilities, researchers found that this protein detects … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … we were able to work with on this project to ask questions about structure and function,” Blaby-Haas said.  Looking at …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … genes from isolates, there isn’t much scientists can tell about its function or its origin. As a result, these genes …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Alternate Metabolic Pathways And there is something special about these new lineages recently tied to methanogenesis. …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by … degrade the plant biomass. In order to learn more about these regulatory networks in the model fungus  N. … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Kyrpides’ research focus on Microbiome Research with an emphasis on Microbiome … S, et al. (2021) Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome. Nat Microbiol . … Nature Biotechnol . 39:499-509. Harrington et al. 2020. A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V CRISPR-Cas …

… and what escapes to the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous … enzymes in the soil and who made them. Based on data reported in the April issue of Soil Biology and Biochemistry … than expected. The transcriptome data had suggested about a 50/50 split between fungal and bacterial enzymes. …

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 …