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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … a 2012 Community Science Program proposal. Joseph Spatafora of Oregon State University led the effort to sequence 1000 fungal genomes to create two reference …

… genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers … they uncovered a novel cellulose-degrading bacterium typically found in low abundances. The Impact Microbes are known …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … the level of photosynthesis in a model green alga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We’re using an attentive …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … Lab) were on the scene collecting samples. Terry Hazen, a former Berkeley Lab environmental biologist and current … Janet Jansson’s team. Jansson is currently Chief Scientist for Biology in the Biological Sciences Division and a …

Research yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar … molecular features to large ecosystem-level processes for the first time. By collecting data from 27 different … data set will help identify how different elements of the ecosystem interact and respond to changes in the …

… 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … from  M. elongata;  the fungus produces them so prolifically, it oozes. The team hypothesizes that lipids could act …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … the set of chromosomes from each ancestor is called a subgenome. Session and Rokhsar, building on work …

… genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including … could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … as genomes sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research …

A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of … Switchgrass has multiple naturally occurring ploidy levels, called cytotypes, across the species. These are primarily …