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… and is found in river and coastal environments. The Impact The perennial grass switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) … that allow it to access nutrients easily from a variety of soils and has a high tolerance of extreme water conditions … summer droughts, these plants were better able to uptake soil water compared to the other plants. The team used QTL …

… to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In providing a reference sugarcane  genome , the JGI … partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane …

… has undergone in adapting to manmade environments. The Impact Due to its aggressive capacity to damage the wood in … to thrive in manmade environments. As reported January 5, 2018 in The ISME Journal , a team led by University of Oslo … other strain because its local environment has been less impacted by human encroachment. The team also did …

… Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact The class  Dothideomycetes includes fungi that obtain … enabled in part through  JGI’s  Community Science Program (CSP) , as several approved proposals have contributed toward …

… in gene flow between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though microbes help regulate the planet’s nutrient cycles and are potentially of use in fields ranging from …

… Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab.) The Impact Biomaterials are materials produced by living … New Process Uses Microbes to Create Valuable Materials from Urine …

… grows back vigorously year after year (perenniality). The Impact Among the long-term aims for bioenergy feedstock … abilities to adapt to extreme environments such as poor soils and drought. The reference genome for M. sinensis, and … complex genome whose evolutionary history and perennial lifecycle makes it important to study directly. The large and …

… called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. These microscopic algae have managed … (Berkeley Lab) through the JGI Community Science Program (CSP) .  Through this collaboration, in 2017, they published … Algal Program makes genomes and multi-omics data from JGI CSP projects publicly available at the PhycoCosm portal . …

… worked with the JGI through a Community Science Program (CSP) proposal, and Rambo’s research builds on that. “The purpose of this CSP is to better understand methane cycling in mangrove … of Rambo’s research focuses on how viruses influence carbon cycling in coastal mangroves. His work centers on …