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… hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science Researchers have developed a genomic model to study … including researchers at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, report the … of nearly a decade of work to develop genomic resources for drought tolerance in perennial grasses. The team …

… helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from … This work was funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (DBI-1652164, …

… they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple microbiology and … and the biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial … superphylum of extremophilic archaea first outlined by JGI scientists and their collaborators in 2013. While most DPANN …

…   Save the Date: March 16–18, 2027 The next JGI Annual Meeting will be held in March 2027 at the Oakland … this page as further details become available. Sign up for our newsletter to receive updates.    … Stefani Ferreira , JGI Administrative and Logistics Support  …

… global research community.  Published January 17, 2025 in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … representation. “When it comes to isolate genome data, our real-world touchstones, we’re just scratching the …

… between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced … in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 …

… identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have … of crystalized samples cloned and synthesized by the JGI, scientists have begun the complex process of uncovering the … second only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase …

… assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and … uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced … limits the ability of researchers to accurately perform functional assessment, host prediction, and phylogenetic …

… growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual … effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of scientists studied what happens to the tree’s physical … as secreted proteins. However,  M. elongata  seems to encourage the plant to have leakier cell walls and weaker …