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… brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean production … brands couldn’t exist without cocoa.  But today the plant is under threat due to climate change and devastating … . An updated reference genome for  T. cacao has now been completed and released by HudsonAlpha scientists, with the …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … parents or duplication, also known as “polyploidy,” is common among flowering plants; at least once during their … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … back to identify candidate genes.”  Through the JGI’s Community Science Program , sequences of several hundred …

…   Register here  Registration fees:  Early Bird rates available now General & Berkeley … Genome Institute, the 5th Viral EcoGenomics and Applications (VEGA) symposium will take place November 18-19, 2026 on … this symposium is to bring together a “Viral Ecogenomics” community to foster discussion on how to best capture and …

… Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the Quantitative Systems Biology (QSB) Group under the School of … there will be a strong culture of cross-training and cross-collaboration between UC Merced and JGI. As such, this …

… DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI … on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. They also took … of root exudates, which overall influences the health and composition of the root microbiome and rhizosphere. Ti’Yanna …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals … an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers …

… biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide … the genome of an alga that thrives in saltwater (halotolerant) and produces the most biomass to date of any such … toward that goal. In a collaborative effort published in Communications Biology , a team involving researchers at the …

… After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives … in 2004. The main object of her research was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she deciphered … The Deputy of User Programs provides direction, leadership and oversight for all of the JGI user …

… marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the … said the work underscores the value of large-scale research collaborations and of conducting even more time-series … and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research through grants awarded to S.J.H. S.J.T. was supported by the Danish …

… The JGI’s Genomes OnLine Database celebrates 25 years as a vital resource for … entered by external users. The Impact One of the significant challenges in maximizing genomic data usage is having … Biology Knowledgebase ( KBase ) — and aims to extend these collaborations in metadata curation, establishing metadata …

… 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 …