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… causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research …

… to global oceans. Through the Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, 24 large-scale proposals … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel …

… A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an esteemed interdisciplinary delegation from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany with the aim of … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the … Twenty years after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one long building at Walnut Creek, … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year to do so. … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Institut Pasteur in France, the importance of …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … varieties that have high productivity across a range of environments is becoming increasingly important for food, … is a perennial grass that quickly grows in a variety of soils and water conditions, standing taller than …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to … food web and change the oceans as we know them. At the base of marine food webs are microscopic photosynthesizing …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … computational methods and analyses developed for JGI-enabled research involving environmental samples to help …

… from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal is a critical resource — it provides access to all of JGI’s genomic databases and tools,” noted  Kjiersten Fagnan , JGI’s Chief Informatics Officer. JGI’s Portals, including Phytozome , IMG , GOLD , …