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… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa … team at the  HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology . An updated reference genome for  T. cacao has now been … of funding from Mars Wrigley. The annotated genome has been updated to a high quality modern standard and includes …

… carbon from the atmosphere and keeps it in the deep ocean. With genomic samples collected before, during and after The … water samples when The Blob started. The samples were taken up and down the water column along the Line P transect, a … modeled the impact of The Blob on the microbial communities up and down the water column. They recently shared their …

… (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting fully-supported summer research collaborations through the U.S. … for current faculty. Applying faculty members may invite up to two student participants from the faculty member’s … 12, 2022. Faculty interested in developing proposals with JGI and Biosciences Area researchers should contact …

… multi-institutional research team that combined field data with a reference switchgrass genome to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology. The information could be useful … Santa Barbara, he and his colleagues found that anaerobic fungi from herbivore poop might be a new source of novel …

… driving climate change. According to the Environmental Protection Agency , methane gas warms the atmosphere as much … livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason … a catalog of 410 rumen microbe genomes. The project relied upon resources from laboratories around the world, …

… of Highly Cited Researchers , which includes 10 affiliated with the JGI . The 2019 list focused on Highly Cited Papers, … Science category Plant Program Library Construction Group Lead Jane Grimwood (at HudsonAlpha), Cross-Field category … an Aspergillus fungal subgroup, section Nigri. Aspergillus fungi play important roles in areas ranging from industrial …

… , IMG , GOLD , MycoCosm , and PhycoCosm , serve researchers with unique areas of focus and data and computational needs. … this task. Improving the download process for this group of users offered the promise of an immediate benefit. The Data Portal — an updated alternative to the Genome Portal — seeks to more …

… for characterizing uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed … to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral … may be tainted by the presence of non-viral genes. Up to this point, there has been a lack of fast and accurate …

… of 100 times the size of what has typically been associated with viruses, while the genomes of large viruses may be only … belong to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the diversity for large and … study from a JGI-led team uncovered giant viruses in the soil for the first time. The current study applied a …